Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Present-day North Carolina is still America's top producer of tobacco, but it's a shadow of what it once was. We traveled through the eastern part of the state to see how an industry that built fortunes, shaped communities, and defined a way of life, still echoes through the small towns that grew it.

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0:00 Intro
1:22 Dunn
5:01 Looking for a Tobacco Market
7:28 Tarboro
8:35 Rusty
10:38 All-Black Town Plagued With Floods
11:00 New Wave of Farms
12:50 Princeville
14:41 Classic Carolina BBQ
16:58 Wilson

Episode 153
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