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Opening Day--Remembering the Local Tobacco Market

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39376
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The author takes the reader back to the days of the large tobacco warehouses in eastern North Carolina. Wilford Griffin, 87, of the Farm Life community in Martin County gives his remembrances of the opening of the tobacco market. Al Cochran, Martin County Farm Extension Agent; Heber Coltrain and N. Jackson of Hamilton, NC also add their stories to this wonderful article about a way of life that has disappeared.