Big Boy’s Inc. Honors Community Doctor in Tobacco Farm Life Museum Donation
[KENLY, NC August 2023] -The Powell family, owners of Big Boy’s Travel Center, made a $5,000 donation to the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in...
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- Aug 14
- 4 min
Museum Internship Reflections
By Katie Collins My experience with the Tobacco Farm Life Museum is nothing but warm. The feeling the museum gives is something akin to...
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Get To Know Our Summer Interns!
We have two interns this summer who have been hard at work since May! We are very grateful to the North Carolina Department of...
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Tobacco Barn Restoration Completed
The restoration of the tobacco barn at the Museum has been completed. Restoration work helped correct weather damage that had, over time,...
- Feb 6
- 1 min
2023 Breakfast with the Commissioner Recap
Our Breakfast with the Commissioner fundraiser on Friday, February 3rd was a huge success for the museum! Thank you to North Carolina...
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Restoring Our Tobacco Barn
Work is set to begin this month on the restoration of the historic tobacco barn on site at the Museum. The barn, which was moved from the...
- Nov 10, 2022
- 2 min
Save the Date for the 2023 Breakfast with the Commissioner
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is proceeding with plans for the 18th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit. The program is held...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
Cleaning a Piece of History
Last year the Museum received a generous donation of an early 1900s oil wagon. The oil wagon, which was used by Watson and Alford...
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
TTFC Grant Progress
The Museum recently received a grant from the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to fund repairs and upgrades to the museum's gallery...
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
Tobacco Farm Life Museum's Historic Tobacco Barn At Risk
Due to the continued support from the public, grants, and the state, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum has grown and persevered even through...
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
Innovative Young Farmer of the Year Announced
Please join us in congratulating this year’s Innovative Young Farmer of the Year, Mr. Jason Farmer. Jason began his career in the sod...
- Jan 21, 2022
- 2 min
N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission Supports Upgrades to Museum Structures & Exhibits
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum has been awarded a grant in the amount of $158,401 from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission....
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Origins of Sharecropping and Tenant Farming in Eastern NC
By Cameron Mooring Agricultural society in America after the Civil War can be defined using two terms, sharecropping and tenant farming....
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
Job Opportunities: Living History Interpreters/Demonstrators
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is hiring several living history interpreters/demonstrators for a new Living History Program to begin in the...
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
2022 Breakfast with the Commissioner
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is proceeding with plans for the 17th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit. The program is held...
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Drive Through Christmas Village Returns to the Tobacco Farm Life Museum
The Tobacco Farm Life Museum will host its second annual Drive Through Christmas Village holiday lights this year during the first three...
- Nov 3, 2021
- 4 min
Tobacco in America: Establishing our Nation's Roots - Celebrating the Life of Lunsford Lane
By: Michael Rhodes Lunsford Lane began his life as an enslaved man, but died a free man by purchasing his freedom. Not only did he...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 5 min
Tobacco in America: Establishing our Nation’s Roots - Tobacco Defines the New Republic
By Michael Rhodes “I say, if you can’t send money, send tobacco.” -George Washington’s request to help finance the American Revolutionary...
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Watson & Alford Oil Wagon: A Piece of Kenly History
By Beth Nevarez The Tobacco Farm Life Museum recently received a generous donation of an early 1900s oil wagon. The oil wagon, which was...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
Museum Receives Federal Grant to Support Living History Program
We are excited to announce that the Tobacco Farm Life Museum received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH...
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