Bravo, Glenna Bird! With your imput ... and quite a few tips from others ... here's the CT tobacco farm film: **************************************************************************** ******** Parrish (1961) http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/0,60,30641,00.html Category: Drama Director: Delmer Daves Cast: Troy Donahue Claudette Colbert Dean Jagger Connie Stevens Diane McBain Sharon Hugueny Carroll O'Connor Vincent Gardenia Karl Malden Run Time: 140 (mins) Distributor Name: Warner Home Video, Ltd. (Canada) Summary: An ambitious young man juggles three women as he struggles with a tobacco king to gain control of a tobacco-growing valley in this soapy romance. **************************************************************************** ********** -----Original Message----- From: Glenna Bird <gmbird@email.msn.com> To: Charles L. Dibble <dibblelaw@email.msn.com> Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [GenConnecticut-L] tobacco farms >It was "Parrish" with Troy Donohue, I know, and Suzanne Pleshette, I think. >I bought the book at a used book sale about a year ago. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Charles L. Dibble <dibblelaw@email.msn.com> >To: GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com <GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 6:39 AM >Subject: Re: [GenConnecticut-L] tobacco farms > > >>1. What I've always been told .... The significance of CT tobacco is not >>its quantity (small) but its quality: CT leaves are used for cigar >>wrappers, which are the best of all tobacco. >>2. There was a film - pure Hollywood - set on the tobacco farms of CT. >>Probably made in the 60s. I saw it. No classic but OK. Now I can't >>remember title or any of the cast. Anyone else? >> >>Greetings from 'bacca land, >> >>Charles L. Dibble >>Post Office Drawer 1240 >>Columbia, South Carolina 29202-1240 >> >>SEARCHING: >>* NEW ENGLAND - DIBBLE, COMSTOCK, TROWBRIDGE, STARR, FYLER, WAKEFIELD >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Richard A. Stevens <rasteven@snet.net> >>To: GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com <GenConnecticut-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 6:03 AM >>Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] tobacco farms >> >> >>>There are still quite a few tobacco farms in CT. Tobacco is not a >>>southern only crop. CT tobacco is mostly shade grown tobacco. As you >>>pass the fields you know immediately what is grown there because the >>>crop is encased in white netting as it gets past the early stages of >>>growth. Many kids from CT grow up working on tobacco in the summer--I >>>think as young as 14 years old is legal here.It is hot dirty work and >>>many kids get a rash, similar to poison ivy when first exposed to the >>>plants. No. I never owrked tobacco, but many of my friends did. >>> >>>As you leave Bradley International Airport in the summer here, you go by >>>field after field of tobacco. It used to be everywhere, then urban >>>development took over and many of the fields are gone. In the last 2 >>>years, an upsurge in tobacco growth has begun, this time by smaller >>>farmers. Apparently, tobacco crops bring more than sweet corn or silage >>>corn, and many small farmers have started growing tobacco instead of >>>corn. There is a small private dairy store about 2 blocks from my house >>>and they have always grown corn for the dairy cows, which are actually >>>kept in another location. This past summer, they shocked us all by >>>growing a field of tobacco, in our totally residential area. It was fun >>>at the end of the summer to see the kids picking the tobacco and putting >>>it on the special trucks with the racks to hold the huge leaves of >>>tobacco to go to the sheds for drying. I remember following those slow >>>moving trucks as a kid 40 years ago, but my kids had never seen it! >>> >>>As other people have mentioned, Windsor and east Windsor were big >>>tobacco areas--and still are although on a smaller scale that in the >>>"good ole days". I live in East Hartford, and we seem to be going back >>>to our roots lately--at least as far as tobacco growing goes. >>> >>>Barb >>> >> >> >> > >