Source: Teresa Leonard, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/29/16


Harvest in rural North Carolina was a full community event, even as late as 1951, when writer Jim Parker described a local corn shucking. The mechanization of Chatham County farms may have taken some of the work out of farming, but there is still plenty of good old time fun left in a Chatham County corn shucking.

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