Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them ...

Last week, U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, the Democrat representing Massachusetts, signed on as co-sponsor of a bill that would prohibit anyone under 18 from working on a tobacco farm, joining a handful of ...

CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY SCATTERED OVER THE LANDSCAPE, LIKE SO MANY MATCHSTICKS FOR MUCH OF THE YEAR. THESE OLD STRUCTURES GIVE OFF A FORLORN AIR OF ABANDONMENT. RELICS OF SOME DISTANT AGRARIAN PAST.

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them down for transport. The freshly harvested stalks are quickly loaded ...