DURHAM, N.C. – Experience North Carolina farming culture and history at Duke Homestead’s annual Brightleaf Harvest Day on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. In addition to demonstrating the nearly lost art of tobacco looping, site staff and volunteers will show how tobacco is grown and harvested in the field.
Visitors are welcome to try their hand at these activities or chat with an interpreter in the historic buildings where much of Durham’s tobacco industry began. This event is free to attend. Duke Homestead is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites withing the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR).
In conjunction with the event, the Duke Homestead Education and History Corporation will hold a barbecue lunch fundraiser. Individual meal tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. The $12 ticket includes pulled pork barbecue, potatoes, green beans, and hushpuppies. Bottled water and canned soft drinks will be available for purchase and meals are available for both take-out or eating in the site’s picnic area…