From the Desk of Mr. James Byrd: Tobacco Helped Bring Christmas

2022-12-22T12:14:22-05:00December 22nd, 2022|Uncategorized|

Tobacco Barn in Yancey County Tobacco Helped Bring Christmas We look around and realize the landscape is quite different from what it was seventy-five years ago.  In driving from Burnsville to Asheville, one could see acres and acres of what was to be one of the big money crops each year: tobacco.  Fields [...]