Local woman recalls tobacco farming fun in 1966

(Lakeexpo.com) When Ann Gainey Tucker was 15 years old, during the summer of 1966, her mother allowed her to travel to Granby, Conn., to work at a tobacco camp. It was that summer that she gained the best memories of her life, she said.
“It was one of the most exciting times of my life. I was 15 and on my own,” said Tucker, recalling her first trip away from home without her parents.
The director of Camp Manitook came to her hometown of Orlando, Fla., looking for recruits to work at the tobacco camp. He recruited her, signed her up and told her to be at the bus station early one July morning. Continued