History museum to host tobacco exhibit Saturday

 

(Robesonian) LUMBERTON, NC - Robeson County’s tobacco era brings back many memories here, and the Robeson County History Museum’s newest exhibit, When Tobacco Was King, aims to remember those times.
The History Museum will host a reception featuring the exhibit on April 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and there will be light refreshments. Continued

La Honradez Cigarette Labels: The 1st Tobacco Collectible

 

(National Cigar History Museum) Sometime in the 1850’s Cuban cigarette manufacturer Louis Susini began bundling his smokes in colorful 4 3/4” x 3 3/8” paper wrappers, one of the earlier uses of full color lithographic labels to package a product. No one knows who came up with the brilliant
idea to design the labels in sets, thus becoming the first use of a collectible to sell tobacco, but it was a stroke of marketing genius. Continued

Vincent’s passion for pipe smoking

 

(Pipes Magazine) "Vincent’s passion for pipe smoking" is a new exhibit at the Amsterdam Pipe Museum that presents the pipes that Vincent van Gogh painted in his portraits and still-life paintings. Six of his self portraits with a pipe show how affectionate Van Gogh was about his pipe smoking. Continued

J.M. Boswell, Stradivari of the Pipe World

 

(Pipes Magazine) You have no doubt heard of Boswell pipes. ... J.M. is one of America’s premiere pipe makers, although he will not tell you that. In fact, about all J.M. will say is, "I’m just like anyone else. Continued

New exhibit features primitive cigar box instruments

 

HANCEVILLE, AL (Wallace State News) The art of creating musical instruments out of common household objects dates back to before the Civil War. Around 100 examples of that art is now on display at The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville.
The History of the Cigar Box Guitar From the Collection of William J. Jehle will be on exhibit Nov. 4, 2014, through January 30, 2015. Along with the stringed instruments there are also etchings from Edward Forbes’ “Life Studies of the Great Army,” depicting the lives of Civil War soldiers. At least one of those shows a Union soldier playing a cigar box violin. Continued

Understanding the Black Patch Tobacco War of West Kentucky and Tennessee

 

(WKMS) As the 20th Century dawned, big business came to the dark tobacco growing region of Kentucky and Tennessee, eliminating competition, manipulating prices and undermining local control. A struggled called The Black Patch War began and lasted nearly until the outbreak of World War I. Commemorations start Friday when the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County offer the 3rd Annual Tobacco War Pilgrimage including a raid re-enactment, a tobacco bus tour, a re-enactment of a Trial of the Nightriders and more. Kate Lochte asked Murray State Professor of History Dr. Bill Mulligan to give an overview of the conflict that embroiled this region, starting in 1904. Continued

Presentation on historic tobacco barns slated Sept. 5 at museum

General landscape with tobacco barn. Halifax County, Virginia, 1939 (Marion Post Wolcott)

 (yourgv.com) A staple of the landscape of Halifax County, the old-style log tobacco barns are slowly disappearing from the scene.

The public is invited to come to the South Boston/Halifax County Museum on Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. for a presentation on the styles, structure and building materials used to erect these barns.

Expert Sonja Ingram will speak on these things as part of the museum’s preparation for their newest exhibit about the history of tobacco in the county. Continued

 

Brunel's Last Cigar on Display

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

(BBC) A cigar which belonged to the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel is one of nearly 1,000 items to go on public display for the first time.
It is part of a collection donated to the ss Great Britain Trust by collector Clive Richards.
The cigar will join thousands of other items at the Being Brunel museum which is due to open in 2016 in the ship he helped to launch in 1843.
Brunel is thought to be one of the most ingenious engineers in history. Continued

Tobacco Artifacts Exhibit Opens in Chatham

 

(WSET) Chatham, VA - After a long wait, history buffs on the Southside will get to see the return of some well-known tobacco artifacts.
The National Tobacco-Textile Museum in Danville closed in 1990, but those relics are getting a new debut.
When the museum closed, the items went into storage.
Now, folks will get to relive their nostalgia for the golden leaf at the Olde Dominion Agricultural Complex in Chatham. Continued