The Tobacco Movie Made In Connecticut

(WindsorPatch) Last week’s column on the history of tobacco in Connecticut seemed to have brought back a flood of memories for many who worked on tobacco in north central Connecticut a generation or more ago.
If you were among those who worked in Tobacco Valley, you might want to find a copy of the movie "Parrish," which was released to the public 50 years ago. Based on a novel of the same name by New London native Mildred Savage, which was published in 1958, much of the movie was actually filmed in Connecticut. Local scenes of tobacco farms, especially at the Thrall Farm in the Poquonock section of Windsor and parts of East Windsor, are everywhere. Continued