• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Am teaching myself to handroll cigars. I don't smoke. But maybe I will a few of these. My Grandfather grew tobacco, and I grew small amounts in Arkansas.



My family raised burley tobacco until the mid 90s when it became unprofitable. Nasty business, you get covered in a sticky gum, you get little green aphids (tiny insects) all over you. We finally quit when we realized that we'd make more per hour doing about anything else without the backbreaking work.

30 years ago, you literally couldn't drive anywhere outisde of city limits in East TN without seeing a tobacco crop, now it's a rarity.
 
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My family raised burley tobacco until the mid 90s when it became unprofitable. Nasty business, you get covered in a sticky gum, you get little green aphids (tiny insects) all over you. We finally quit when we realized that we'd make more per hour doing about anything else without the backbreaking work.

30 years ago, you literally couldn't drive anywhere outisde of city limits in East TN without seeing a tobacco crop, now it's a rarity.
Burley is what I grew in Arkansas.
 

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