Picture Connecticut: The Tobacco Harvest

EAST WINDSOR, CT — The latest installment of the Picture Connecticut series takes us to a tradition in the Connecticut River Valley — the late-summer tobacco harvest.

Workers are pictured at a farm parcel on Route 140 in East Windsor harvesting the crop, which was then transported to special barns for curing.

Connecticut Valley tobacco is generally regarded as some of the finest cigar wrappers.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly Patch series featuring unique images of the state, past and present.
Previous featured images:

• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester