Sentences with phrase «tobacco fields»

All I knew — given the limited range of professional lives I could observe from my hometown of textile mills and surrounding tobacco fields — was that I wanted to teach.

My grandfather's tobacco fields stretch out behind them, shimmering in the spring heat.

Not sure about child labor laws, but I worked in family tobacco fields before started first grade.

Boxer Qi Moxiang (left) volunteers his time to recruit poor young people in Sichuan, saving them from a life of slaving away in tobacco fields in the documentary «China Heavyweight.»

Set amongst Fujian Provinces rice, tea and tobacco fields stands a very unique architecture treasure the Tulou.

Sandwiched between Honduras and Costa Rica, Nicaragua has a string of attractions, from miles of dense rainforest, lush tobacco fields and majestic volcanoes, to beautiful lakes and the charming Spanish colonial towns towns of Leon and ancient Granada.

He worked in the tobacco fields at age 11 and still knows which leaves to pick and how to cure them.

«Four years ago, you really had to drive around to find a tobacco field,» he says.

But the back - breaking work in the tobacco fields, as described in the «Tillsonburg» song by the late, great Stompin» Tom Connors, is largely gone.

Ric is a veteran journalist who got his start reporting from the tobacco fields of southwestern Ontario, but came to Edmonton in the early 1980s to cover politics and other matters for Alberta Report, where he rose to executive editor, before moving on to senior writing and editing positions with Maclean's Magazine in Toronto and the Globe and Mail in Vancouver.

She worked hard, taking a bus to the tobacco fields outside Hartford, working the fields in a strange mix of life that touched both the memories of her girlhood in Georgia and the realities of ghetto life in the Northeast.

I am in the Racehorse Tavern, the closest bar to the «dry» town of Dover, which nestles among the corn, soy and tobacco fields, and Amish settlements.

The state filed a lawsuit against the federal government to get its hemp seeds and now Kentucky, long known for its tobacco fields, has hemp in the ground.

The lad is soon romancing three different women: Judd's daughter Paige (Sharon Hugeny), the daughter of Judd's arch-rival, and a wanton woman of the tobacco fields.

The kids I liked best would be near the barrier fence at the far side of the tobacco fields, so I made a beeline for that patch of trouble.

But one day, while she is working out in a tobacco field, she finds her father beaten to death by another slave.

In fact, the state's population is growing at a faster rate than that of the U.S. People who live here know it's about way more than just miles of tobacco fields and dusty country roads.

The state filed a lawsuit against the federal government to get its hemp seeds and now Kentucky, long known for its tobacco fields, has hemp in the ground.

For sunshine - filled relaxation, hit the white - sand Cayo Lago Del Sur or Varadero Beach, and plan a day tour to see the tobacco fields of Viñales by horse.

Wonderful Havana was one of our Year 3 highlights while Year 4 kicked off in Viñales a laid - back town of rocking chairs on verandahs, lush landscapes of limestone rock formations and tobacco fields, and some of the friendliest people we've met — we felt like we were staying with our grandparents at our welcoming casa particulare (homestay).

Hotel Los Jazmines lived up to its reputation of having the best view in Viñales and we spent ages gazing down at the lush green scene — craggy mogotes looming over the red earth farmland and tobacco fields.

After about an hour of getting lost amidst hills and tobacco fields I gave up the search and just went back home.

Their ancestors may have worked the cotton and tobacco fields that later became football fields.»

The farmer who buys the used - up tobacco fields couldn't afford to do the first clearing, but can afford to plant different crops sequentially to keep the soil depletion under control.