If you're at the fair on Friday (October 21) you might want to check out an old-timey mock tobacco.
There was a tobacco-tying contest last Friday at the fair (Janet Jackson, Terry Jackson and Curtis Jackson of Zebulon won the top prize; Nancy Stewart, Susie Allen and Gary Watson of Benson took second place). The tobacco was tied to sticks and put up in a barn at Heritage Circle to cure, and it's been curing there all week.
Tomorrow at 2 p.m. they'll take the tobacco out and hold a mock auction. Retired auctioneers and retired buyers are coming in for the demonstration, which will show folks how tobacco used to be sold (today, instead of auctions, tobacco is sold through contracts between tobacco companies and farmers).
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