Leaning tobacco barns fill the beautiful winding back roads of Kentucky. Forgotten weather-worn wood shifting to one side. These tired landmarks dot counties throughout the Commonwealth. Every time I ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

Around each curve in rural Kentucky, it seems, there's another tobacco barn. Many of them are like old gentlemen — still handsome but kind of falling in on themselves. There was a time in Kentucky ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ A few Kentucky agencies met recently to discuss preserving parts of Kentucky's rural landscape that are as familiar as its rolling hills: Its deteriorating barns. Representatives ...

Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch nostalgia on country roads in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other nearby states. They offer both beautiful American folk art and a haunting reminder of a ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Landmark Farm looks like any other well-tended homestead until you get a glimpse of llamas grazing in the field and see the century-old tobacco barn stripped with new wood. A closer ...

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY. (WSIL) -- Crews in Calloway County battled a massive tobacco barn fire. It happened near the 300 block of Christian Lane in the southern part of Calloway County. The owner called ...

Jim Rumford knows the story by heart. He’s been hearing it since he was a boy—the one about the time his great grandpa, George Washington Kinney—Mr. Kinney, as Rumford calls him today—was awakened in ...

<P> They're a part of Southern Maryland's landscape. Some are tumbling to the ground from misuse and age. Others are barely standing. And a select few are in great shape and still are being used for ...

Dark-fired tobacco, a lucrative crop used for pipe tobacco and cigars, has long been a lifeline for farmers in Robertson County, Tennessee. Despite its profitability, tobacco farming is facing ...