The shade tobacco industry in central Connecticut continues to get smaller and smaller.

I’ve long known that the growing fields and the big red drying barns were disappearing, slowly being replaced by the housing complexes and industrial parks that are the urban sprawl of the Hartford area.

But the pace seems to be picking up.  Usually it’s a barn here or a field there, but last fall I noticed this large field of barns being reduced to orderly piles of old lumber.  And the for sale sign.

The planting and harvesting continues in the midst of the barn destruction but one day it’ll all be just a memory.

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