[AT] Tobacco lathes and Charity Sneak Peak

[charlie hill]

Hi Spencer,  I enjoyed looking at the art work.   The tobacco them stuff is 
my heritage.   There is nothing in those pictures that I haven't done.  Down 
East (NC) we called them tobacco sticks, the same as the artist does in one 
of his titles.   I still have around 1000 tobacco sticks.  Most are 50's 
vintage and sawed in a lathe  mill but I have a good number of hand split 
ones.   I don't know what happened to our graded sticks ( sanded down to 
smooth  round dowel shape and used for taking the graded tobacco to market) 
they all disappeared sometime while I was away in college and tenant farmers 
were tending our  land.

Your painting should be a good addition to the charity auction!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: [AT] Tobacco lathes and Charity Sneak Peak


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> On 10/3/2004 at 5:45 PM Mike Sloane wrote:
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>>to windmills, mules, courting buggeys, church pews, tobacco lathes
>>(whatever they are), and implements of all kinds. And of course the
>
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> In the old days, tobacco leaves were cured by stringing them together into
> bunches at the stems and then these are hung from wooden cross-boards in
> the curing barn.   Basically there are layers upon layers of these filling
> the barn.  These boards are called stringers around here, or "lathes" in
> other parts of the state and/or country I understand.
>
> Speaking of tobacco, I just wanted to give everyone a sneak peak at one of
> the items that will be donated to the charity auction this holiday season:
>
> http://www.mccluregallery.net/agriculture.htm
>
> and then look for the print entitled "Planting Time".  The subject is the
> artist's family planting tobacco when he was young.  (Which would have
> eventually been cured on stringers (-; )  I picked up the print directly
> from the artist this weekend so it is autographed(on the matte).  The 
> print
> is signed and numbered too:  29 of 8000.  The artist knew the tractor was 
> a
> Farmall 100 so he must be telling the truth (-;
>
> Here is more about the artist
>
> http://www.iveyhayesart.com
>
> He has probably a half a dozen or more tobacco paintings that shows the
> various activities during tobacco farming.   Included in this group of
> paintings is one entitled "Hanging tobacco" and shows the leaf on
> stringers.
>
> Anyways, interesting you brought up tobacco the day I come back in town
> with a tobacco painting for the Charity auction (-;
>
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
> Plow the Net!
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