brightleaf

"brightleaf" tobacco grown in these parts was embraced by the soldiers and brought home, thereby ensuring that the Civil War would lead to many more deaths in both the North and South

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

But it was basically North Carolina tobacco all the way through, brightleaf.

Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1986

Where once were images of strapping teenagers striding from sun-drenched brightleaf fields onto the cool green of baseball diamonds, now place pictures of young men running up and down basketball courts.

unknown title 2009

Where once were images of strapping teenagers striding from sun-drenched brightleaf fields onto the cool green of baseball diamonds, now place pictures of young men running up and down basketball courts.

unknown title 2009