Bobbie Bryant’s Tobacco in the Black Patch brings back childhood memories

(Kentucky Forward) I reflected on my youth around the family tobacco farm recently while reading Farming in the Black Patch (Acclaim Press, 2015), by author Bobbie Smith Bryant. The book is a well-done account of Bryant’s family (Smiths and a few others) raising dark-fired tobacco in the westernmost part of Kentucky, called the “Black Patch” area. It is a follow-up to the Michael Breeding produced PBS documentary of the same name, of which Bryant served as the associate producer. Continued