Around this time of year, first responders have been used to receiving an influx of calls for tobacco barn fires. As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of ...

When he steps into the old white barn his grandfather built, Stephen Reeves can remember climbing way, way up, into the rafters, to help hang tobacco leaves to dry. The tin roof is perhaps 30 feet ...

Around each curve in rural Kentucky, it seems, there's another tobacco barn. Many of them are like old gentlemen — still handsome but kind of falling in on themselves. There was a time in Kentucky ...

Once vital to Southern economy, tobacco barns are all but forgotten as they sit neglected and abandoned by their owners. They’re easy to spot from rural roadways on the various Sunday drive, and ...

Susan Watson-White earned her 1985 Miss Maryland Tobacco Queen title not on a runway but working endless rows of tobacco. She learned alongside her father, stripping tobacco and hanging it from the ...

Editor’s Note: The Kansas City Star has an extensive photo archive filled with images of events, people and places that have shaped Kansas City. We’re sharing some of those images for a look back at ...