DESCRIPTION:
Subject: A Lancaster County Tobacco Field
Condition: Excellent (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: No
Year: Ca. 1935
Publisher: Curteich Chicago
"On rainy days in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, when the fields are too wet to work, the Amish farmers climb into horse-drawn buggies and make their way to the auction barn in the hamlet of New Holland. Farmers might bid on a horse or two, or barter for a season's load of hay, but the auction is more of an excuse to socialize. Talk among the bearded men gathered in clutches outside the whitewashed stables inevitably turns to tobacco.
For generations, tobacco has been the lifeblood--or "mortgage lifter" as some have dubbed it--for the closely knit, devoutly religious Amish community of 19,000 in Lancaster County. They're a people struggling to carry on simple and sheltered lives, refusing to use amenities like electricity and cars in a world that grows more modern by the day.
As they watch swaths of Lancaster County's lush rolling farmland being turned into housing developments and outlet shopping malls, many of the county's Amish are questioning whether tobacco is worth the trouble.
Just as the Amish's nineteenth century lifestyles have come
under siege, the local tobacco industry has had to weather great
market changes since the days when every small central Pennsylvania
town seemed to have its own cigar factory."
(Attribution: http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Tobacco-In-Amish-Country_7556)
Lot #8309
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