Mr. Nichols has served in many capacities in state government for over a decade. From 1984-1987 he served as communications and media director for David Boswell, Comissioner of Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He discusses the...
Mr. Hendrick has been the farm extension agent in Henderson County for 35 years. This interview has basically two directions: how Henderson County was a center of the tobacco trade at one time and about the farming of Green River tobacco.
Mr. Alexander has been a farmer of Green River tobacco for over fifty years. He recalls when Henderson was a center for the crop and that he was president of the Stemming District for three years.
Mr. French is a black farmer with broad experience in agriculture, including time as a compliance officer for ASCS, and a loan officer for the Farmer's Home Administration.
Mr. McPherson is the ASCS District Director in the far western part of Kentucky and deals with three major types of tobacco grown in the state. This interview deals with the role of tobacco in the region and discussion of the types of tobacco.
Mr. Brown's interview is an especially meaningful one since Logan County is home for the three general types of tobacco grown in Kentucky- dark air-cured, dark fire-cured, and air-cured barley. Mr. Brown is both a farmer and warehouseman. Finally,...
Pinkerton Tobacco Company is the largest producer of loose leaf chewing tobacco and plug tobacco in the world. All their operations are in Owensboro, KY. Mr. Pittman is the executive vice-president at Pinkerton, which essentially means he is in...
The role and duties of the tobacco auctioneer are discussed by the world's top auctioneer, a title Mr. Cage won twice in the accepted contest in Virginia.
. . . together with the Course of Study and Annual Announcement for 1869-70., also an address by W.S. Giltner on the female culture demanded by modern life. Eminence College, located in Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, began as a high school in...
"...Compiled from the work of the Survey and the profiles of the various railroad and river surveys. Also, a list of astronomical stations in Kentucky, determined by the U.S. Coast and geodetic survey."
