November
1, 2002
Art Historian James
O'Gorman to Lecture November 8
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Photo: Cervin Robinson
James O'Gorman
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As
smoking rates decline in the United States and demand for American-grown
tobacco dwindles, many tobacco farmers are diversifying their
crops or moving into other businesses, leaving their curing barns
as memorials to a disappearing industry. Such is the case in the
Connecticut River valley, once a major producer of cigar leaf
tobacco. Best-selling author and art historian James O'Gorman
has brought to life the risks and rewards of living and working
close to the seasons in his new book, Connecticut Valley Vernacular:
The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco
Fields. He will speak about tobacco farming and tobacco barns
as vernacular architecture at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Friday, November 8, at 7 pm. The art museum galleries will be
open for the program. A reception will follow. more>
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