Source: WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 8/22/17

As the hot, steamy days of summer pass, hardy rows of green tobacco ripen, turning bright yellow leaf by leaf.
As the leaves begin to yellow, farmers prepare to harvest their crop. In Brunswick County, an area once rife with tobacco farms, only three farmers remain. Wayne Grissett works about 60 acres of tobacco in Ocean Isle Beach with his son, William. Jody Clemmons has a tobacco farm in the Supply area.

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