[Pontiac]

This is an old article and I typically would not post something like this especially because the rest of the article is a plug for the museum.

But considering that East Lake Ohio is on the shore of Lake Erie about four hundred miles north of the Ohio River and about six hundred miles north of were tobacco is grown now and no tobacco will grow in East Lake today, I found this article of intense interest.

How is it that tobacco has a history of cultivation in the most Northern part of Ohio in distant past long before the evil industrial white man came to this land and yet Anthropomorphic Global Warming is driving climate change that will destroy civilization?

[sinanju]

I beg to differ, good sir.

I read a fascinating article in the WSJ last year concerning the little-remarked-upon fact that since tobacco was “deregulated” (no more subsidies OR restrictions) several years ago, it has in fact become more profitable than ever and is gradually being grown in parts of the country that had not seen it since the nineteen-thirties.

The article that I remember mentions a veteran tobacco farmer from TN who has made a new career for himself working as a consultant teaching tobacco farming to fellow sod-busters in far-off states, among them, Ohio.

[kaehurowing]

“There were so many pipes in the area because there were a lot of tobacco patches there,” says Ann Dewald, director of the Indian Museum of Lake County.

Like, woah, dude, think of all the pipes they’re going to find in Berkeley like 500 years from now.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cold Heart]

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