#Kentucky Tobacco

[rollnwraps]

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[fisarmonical]

Grover Hatfield, smoking pipe, listens to Bud McCoy, with York petition, by auto, Cannonsburg, Kentucky, June 1942. The Hatfield and McCoy families were involved in a famous feud in the 1870s-1880s. Title supplied by cataloger. Date: June 1946.

[uniqueartisanconnoisseur]

A Southern Road Trip

It started out with a road trip heading to Nashville, Tennessee for a tractor show. As always, if time allows, I diverged! What is more fun than finding stops you never planned. Unanticipated finds bring me great joy! Our first planned stop was Patti’ 1880’s Settlement Restaurant in Grand River’s, Kentucky. The Land Between the Lakes is stunningly beautiful! In 2021, we traveled this direction.…

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Tobacco barn, with harvest drying ...... Oldham County KY. Unfortunately still a cash crop for some parts of Kentucky

[tragedycoded]

oc questionnaire - royston edition.

I'm not happy about this either /bit

So, I lost all my old character intros when I nuked the old blog. They're probably floating around somewhere.

If nobody knows who Royston is, he is the tritagonist (that's right, idiot, Hofer's the deuteragonist) of Doom Metal Love Story and a neverending pain in my neck. As of July 1st, 1873 he is a 45-year-old gambler who's wanted in five states for various flavors of murder and known to consort with 37-year-old First Sergeant Cole Sullivan.

I will do my best to keep spoilers to a minimum; however, for my own sanity, I'm answering for Book 2 Royston.

@the-golden-comet [1, 2] wants to know:

What never fails to make you laugh?

[he immediately starts cracking up]

Well, since you asked, I was just imagining the expression on Laurence Huston face when I stuck him.

What a knob. I cannot wait to drain the snake on his grave. Do not tell Cole I said that.

How can you tell if you’ll get along with someone?

Oh, I get along with everyone, darling. I don't have to wonder ahead of time.

Do you prefer sweet, savory, sour, or salty snacks?

[looks in Sullivan's direction and sighs]

What is your favorite season?

Autumn. [beat] Oh you want me to elaborate? Well I sweat less, for starters--

Never mind.

Where would you like to visit?

Now that you mention it, I've never been to Kentucky.

When do you usually go to sleep?

Why, are you hoping for an invitation? When I'm done for the day. Or when I'm tired. Or whenever I damned well please.

Royston tends to pass out around dawn.

@wyked-ao3 [x] I picked Royston knowing he would have to answer these:

If you had to pick just one enemy who would it be?

[he doesn't hesitate]

Doctor Emil Powell of Wherever the Fuck University. His actions directly lead to Cole's death. If someone didn't have me figuratively leashed to the damned boarding house I'd have caught up to him already, but noooo, I'm not allowed to go ahead and take care of him myself.

When did you feel safest and why?

[scoffs]

I will bring out Gott.

New Year's Eve. I will not elaborate.

If you could save just one other person who would it be?

Listen, I don't have to save him. He's the one who saved me.

Royston thinks people in town give a shit about whether he maintains his heartless badass reputation.

Oh shit @sableglass [x] has some good ones:

Tell us your favorite joke.

Would you believe I learned this one from Sullivan? Cavalrymen are absolutely filthy.

The private--I presume one could say "gentleman," however when Sullivan recited it to me the first time, it went like this:

The private couldn't understand why his lass failed to write him throughout the entirety of the campaign. She said it was out of her power, as he had carried away the pen with him, and left her nothing but the ink-stand.

Oh he thinks that's funny.

What is your proudest achievement?

He just grins. I think that's supposed to means he's proud of still being alive.

Five things that make you happy?

BEER.

TOBACCO.

BEDS.

HOT WATER.

SULLIVAN.

Pre-Sullivan #5 would have just been "GAMBLING."

And finally, from @orphanheirs [x]:

What would your perfect day look like?

[sigh] He's there when I wake up, and he's there when I go to sleep. Typically I'm there when he goes to sleep and then he has to go. If Army doesn't muster him out quickly I will burn down that entire fort. That would be a perfect day.

Do you believe in ghosts?

[siiiiigh] Ghosts aren't real. Spirits, however... are insatiable little bastards, and I have no tolerance for them.

If you could only wear one color of clothing for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?

Black. It's easier to conceal blood, and I notice Cole looking at my ass significantly more when I'm wearing dark clothing. Win-win-win.

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[heavenlybackside]

Old tobacco barn in eastern Kentucky

[twofeetonthedashboard]

Kentucky Tobacco Barn

[kemetic-dreams]

"The original "Uncle Tom",

Rev. Josiah Henson and wife; Dresden ,Canada (c1907)

Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who returned to Kentucky for his wife and escaped across the Ohio River, eventually to Canada. Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his memoir in 1858, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (published Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1858). Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (1876).

Josiah Henson was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. When he was a boy, his father was punished for standing up to a slave owner, receiving one hundred lashes and having his right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then cut off. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. Following his family's master's death, young Josiah was separated from his mother, brothers, and sisters.His mother pleaded with her new owner Isaac Riley, Riley agreed to buy back Henson so she could at least have her youngest child with her; on condition he would work in the fields. Riley would not regret his decision, for Henson rose in his owners' esteem, and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his master's farm, located in Montgomery County, Maryland (in what is now North Bethesda). In 1825, Mr. Riley fell onto economic hardship and was sued by a brother in law. Desperate, he begged Henson (with tears in his eyes) to promise to help him. Duty bound, Henson agreed. Mr. R then told him that he needed to take his 18 slaves to his brother in Kentucky by foot. They arrived in Daviess County Kentucky in the middle of April 1825 at the plantation of Mr. Amos Riley. In September 1828 Henson returned to Maryland in an attempt to buy his freedom from Issac Riley.

He tried to buy his freedom by giving his master $350 which he had saved up, and a note promising a further $100. Originally Henson only needed to pay the extra $100 by note, Mr. Riley however, added an extra zero to the paper and changed the fee to $1000. Cheated of his money, Henson returned to Kentucky and then escaped to Kent County, U.C., in 1830, after learning he might be sold again. There he founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, Upper Canada. Henson crossed into Upper Canada via the Niagara River, with his wife Nancy and their four children. Upper Canada had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed "An Act to prevent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province". The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U.S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free. By the time Henson arrived, others had already made Upper Canada home, including African Loyalists from the American Revolution, and refugees from the War of 1812.

Henson first worked farms near Fort Erie, then Waterloo, moving with friends to Colchester by 1834 to set up a African settlement on rented land. Through contacts and financial assistance there, he was able to purchase 200 acres (0.81 km2) in Dawn Township, in next-door Kent County, to realize his vision of a self-sufficient community. The Dawn Settlement eventually prospered, reaching a population of 500 at its height, and exporting black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson purchased an additional 200 acres (0.81 km2) next to the Settlement, where his family lived. Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a African militia unit in the Rebellion of 1837. Though many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to the United States after slavery was abolished there, Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5, 1883.

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Alaska: Igloo, Kodiak bear, Iditarod sled dog race, Denali

Hawaii: pearl harbor, pineapple

washington: Space Needle, apple, mt st helens, rainier national park

oregon: roses, lighthouse, crater lake, oregon trail, hiking

california: redwood tree, white water rafting, gold, golden gate bridge, silicon valley, yosemite national park, wine country, sierra nevada mountains, hollywood, joshua tree

nevada: silver, las vegas strip, hoover dam

idaho: gemstones, potatoes

montana: rocky mountains, glacier national park, grizzly bear, bison

wyoming: yellowstone national park, old faithful geyser, bucking bronco

utah: great salt lake, zion national park, skiing

arizona: lake mead, grand canyon national park, montezuma castle, turquoise, saguaro cactus

new mexico: pueblo, yucca plant, carlsbad caverns

colorado: rocky mountain national park, columbine flower, elk

north dakota: oil, wind energy

south dakota: crazy horse memorial, the badlands, mount rushmore

nebraska: chimney rock, bald eagle, train

kansas: tornadoes, dodge city, sunflower

oklahoma: tomato, wheat, osage shield

texas: cattle, prickly pear cactus, oil refinery, the alamo, NASA Johnson space Center

Minnesota: lake of the woods, wolf, deer

iowa: prairie grass, corn

missouri; Hog, gateway arch

arkansas: razorback hog, banjo

louisiana: crayfish, mardi gras, jazz music

wisconsin: dairy

illinois: Willis tower, tractor, lincoln

michigan: copper, iron ore, automobile manufacturing, motown

indiana: Car

ohio: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tires

pennsylvania: street mill, liberty bell

new jersey: constitution

maryland: blue crab

virginia: mount vernon

north carolina: wright brothers national memorial, tobacco farm, great smoky mountains national park, appalachian mountains

south carolina: fort sumter

georgia: peanuts, peach

florida: oranges, kennedy space center, alligator, everglades national park

alabama: cotton, civil rights movement

mississippi: magnolia

tennessee: country music

kentucky: horse racing

west virginia: coal

new york: apple tree, financial market, statue of liberty

massachusetts: american revolution

vermont: maple syrup

new hampshire: fall colors

maine: acadia national park, moose, lobster

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[tenshinokorin]

Okay so here's the thing I woke up wtfing about today.

What the hell is everyone smoking on Planet Gunsmoke. 

No, seriously. Look, I grew up in rural Kentucky in the '80s. Half of my relatives were tobacco farmers, and even the ones that weren't usually had a hand in helping with it. And without getting into the minutiae of just how much fuss and bother that fukken crop needs, I tell you, there is nowhere on that barren rock that could grow enough quantities of tobacco for just one Nicholas D. Wolfwood's smoking habit, much less everyone else's. 

That shit needs warm BUT NOT TOO WARM but then sun NOT TOO MUCH SUN and rain NOT TOO MUCH RAIN and that's not even counting how you've got to set it and top it and dock it and fondle it and tell it it is pretty and hang it up on a fall Thursday in when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius and leave it until a talking fox comes to your door and tells you your clock is ten minutes late etc etc. Then you can take it out of your barn and drive it a hundred and fifty miles to sell it for a pittance to a cigarette company, who will laugh all the way to the bank about how they ruined the hemp industry in KY and forced farmers to give it up in exchange for a toxic plant that absolutely sucks the life out of whatever dirt it is put into. 

(I may be a little loose on the specifics, but you get the gist.) 

So I have come up with two theories. 

One, there is some kind of tough native plant on Gunsmoke/Nomans that serves as a decent smoke. It is probably something that dries naturally, but has enough of a tar to make a good burn, and provides a similar effect as nicotine. (They might all be smoking spliffs, as well, because we know that cannabis can be grown in someone's basement.) It might even be that there is juuuuust enough tobacco produced so that it gets mixed in with the native plant. It is possible to produce tobacco in arid regions, it just requires a lot of resources and it's not a food crop, which I think would take priority. Based on how much 'real' tobacco is in your cigarette, I imagine the price of your smoke goes up accordingly. If you smoke full baccy cigs, it's probably like drinking imported spring water exclusively. This might be why Wolfwood is constantly broke. 

My other theory is that, as we know, smoking is terrible for you and generally kills you sooner or later, which leads me to the conclusion that Millions Knives is behind the entire tobacco industry on Gunsmoke, and he gets a hell of a chuckle out of the notion that he's making humans pay--in a slow horrible way--for their abuse of a plant. 

The upshot of this is, of course, that it doesn't matter to Wolfwood. His healing chemicals basically regenerate his entire lung tissue every time he uses one, so he will absolutely never get one of the umpteen horrible ways that tobacco use can kill you! He'll live forever! I mean. Unless something else happens, right?  

Ahahahaha okay goodnight everybody I need a smoke. 

[robertalanclayton]

Tobacco farmer, and his grandson, Kentucky, RA Clayton 

[joeinct]

Wagons Deliver Tobacco to Russell Spears' Barn, New Lexington, Kentucky, Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940

[similarfruit]

"Tobacco Sacks" quilt, Kentucky 1930-1945

The Art Institute of Chicago

[tragedycoded]

Why is Royston short

Anon! Hello!

So for the first three drafts, all the main characters were six feet tall. I must have been trying to make a joke about Western protagonists or smth. Or they were just lumps of clay in my brain. IDK, man. I smoke a lot of weed.

Remember this is set between 1872-1874, and the main characters were born between 1828 and 1835. Everyone is 37-45 years old, excepting Hofer's children. Not important.

I learned about something called the Antebellum Puzzle, which was where the male U.S. population's height began declining in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Farmers weren't making enough to keep up with industrialization, and a lot of farmers were focusing more on non-food production (cotton and tobacco) so the price of food went up. Between 1840 and 1870, the American diet fucking sucked. I haven't taken an economics course since Bush Jr. was in office, don't ask me to explain this in any great detail.

So I decided to adjust the men's heights.

The average height in the late 19th century for a man was 5'7". I believe. Give or take a couple inches. I don't have my notebook open.

Hofer stayed 6' tall, because he comes from an affluential family who wouldn't have been affected by the rising cost of food and would have been able to afford actual nutritious ingredients. Still would have been unusually tall for the time.

Sullivan got knocked down to 5'9", which is still slightly above-average but respectable for a man with his background. (He's from Kentucky.)

Royston grew up in poverty, was subjected to severe neglect when he was a small child, was sent to work in a glass factory instead of receiving an education, and ran away from home when he was 13 because Reasons. Children who don't eat don't tend to grow. After discussing it with The Squad (there was a post about it on my old blog but LOL that got nuked) I decided fuck it. Make him 5'4".

TLDR: Representation.