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Looking toward the future with hope and working together as a community.
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A look at the pageantry of the tobacco industry in its heyday.
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A look at the struggle to find crops to replace tobacco. Some farmers have substituted cattle, corn, beans and other vegetables for tobacco, but the profits are not what they were with tobacco.
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A look at the economy during tobacco's heyday and how that often translated into segregation in Mullins and other agricultural towns.
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The history of sharecropping and its after-effects in the tobacco industry. After the Civil War, former enslaved Africans had a great desire to own their own farms. Most freedmen were very poor...
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Looking at the transition from hand-held farming to the advent of machines. In the past, tobacco was a labor-intensive crop. People handled every leaf throughout the growing, harvesting and curing...
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Understanding the challenges of farming in Mullins today. Health Risks of Tobacco Almost a half-million Americans die of smoking-related illnesses every year, making smoking the leading cause of...
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Understanding how to keep youth in the city of Mullins.
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Rebuilding the town of Mullins as tobacco makes an exit as a cash crop.
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The sad reality of unemployment in Mullins.