Leaning tobacco barns fill the beautiful winding back roads of Kentucky. Forgotten weather-worn wood shifting to one side. These tired landmarks dot counties throughout the Commonwealth. Every time I ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

Around each curve in rural Kentucky, it seems, there's another tobacco barn. Many of them are like old gentlemen — still handsome but kind of falling in on themselves. There was a time in Kentucky ...

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY. (WSIL) -- Crews in Calloway County battled a massive tobacco barn fire. It happened near the 300 block of Christian Lane in the southern part of Calloway County. The owner called ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ A few Kentucky agencies met recently to discuss preserving parts of Kentucky's rural landscape that are as familiar as its rolling hills: Its deteriorating barns. Representatives ...

The quaint village of Port Tobacco in the rolling hills of southern Maryland, an hour from Washington, has a few pre-Revolutionary War homes on a square and a rebuilt courthouse that only hint at what ...

Jim Rumford knows the story by heart. He’s been hearing it since he was a boy—the one about the time his great grandpa, George Washington Kinney—Mr. Kinney, as Rumford calls him today—was awakened in ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...