Having fun with Durham's tobacco heritage

The racers wriggled in anticipation. So did their handlers. The track was a wooden stage. The temptation – a ring of delicious tobacco leaves – circled the racers. And they were off, squirming over each other to get to the leaf that launched the American Tobacco Company.
The racers were hornworms – little green crawlers indigenous to tobacco fields. The race was part of Duke Homestead’s annual Harvest and Hornworm Festival, held Saturday. Continued