Brian,
This old tobacco barn presents a sad appearance. It sits in a dilapidated condition amongst a developing forest that will soon wipe her very existence away. In her heyday, she most likely was the center of a bustling enterprise familiar to generations of South Georgians who worked the sandy flats and low hills of the bright leaf flue cured tobacco belt. Her stringing benches appear to have already disappeared and her side boards are split, discolored and rotting. Things have moved on, leaving her behind to tell her story but for a short period before she completely vanishes. Your photo, and the memories of past tobacco seasons that linger in the minds of those who toiled in her presences, will be all that is left to remind us of a long and rich legacy. As time passes fewer and fewer of us will lament her passing. When we are gone who will remember the heat, the smell, the sweat, the back breaking labor that took place under her shelter and inside her doors? Who will appreciate the much needed, well deserved cash money she helped provide for a farm family wed to the soil?
Brian,
This old tobacco barn presents a sad appearance. It sits in a dilapidated condition amongst a developing forest that will soon wipe her very existence away. In her heyday, she most likely was the center of a bustling enterprise familiar to generations of South Georgians who worked the sandy flats and low hills of the bright leaf flue cured tobacco belt. Her stringing benches appear to have already disappeared and her side boards are split, discolored and rotting. Things have moved on, leaving her behind to tell her story but for a short period before she completely vanishes. Your photo, and the memories of past tobacco seasons that linger in the minds of those who toiled in her presences, will be all that is left to remind us of a long and rich legacy. As time passes fewer and fewer of us will lament her passing. When we are gone who will remember the heat, the smell, the sweat, the back breaking labor that took place under her shelter and inside her doors? Who will appreciate the much needed, well deserved cash money she helped provide for a farm family wed to the soil?