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Tobacco Girls |
"The Tobacco Girls," Polk County Historical Association Newsletter," August 2009
"September Program Meeting," Polk County Association Newsletter, September 2009
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Mark Sullivan remembers working summers on a tobacco farm in the late 1950s. Mark Sullivan grew up in Connecticut during the late 1950s. It was a time when the state produced huge amounts of shade leaf tobacco, used to make cigar wrappers. Sullivan recounts the summers of his childhood when he and other local teenagers went to the fields.