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From: "Charles L. Dibble" <>
Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] Tobacco - and the film
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 12:41:08 -0500


Bravo, Glenna Bird!
With your imput ... and quite a few tips from others ... here's the CT
tobacco farm film:
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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.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenna Bird <>
To: Charles L. Dibble <>
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 <>
>To: <>
>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 <>
>>To: <>
>>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
>>>
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