Collection Title: Ricky-Dale Calhoun - Tobacco Book
Series Number: MS24-08
Processed and Cataloged by: Ian Brockman & LaDonna Hamontree
Date Listed: August 29, 2024
Date Span: 2021
Size of Collection:
Number of Boxes: 2 flat boxes
Type of Material: 2 copies of his book, "Smoky Black Gold; A Global History of Kentucky-Tennessee Dark Fire-Cured Tobacco". One copy is slighty different. There is also a jump/USB drive.
Condition of Material: Very Good.
Arrangement: 1 copy of each book in each box.
Biographical / Historical Information: He was born and grew to adulthood on a bobacco farm in the Bethel Church community near Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. His ancestral roos in the county go back 225 years. In education and philosophy of life, he likes to think that he is what during the Renaissance was colled a uomo universale; a man who is learned and skillful in many arts and sciences, and who has had a wide range of life experiences. He is a 1977 graduate of Trigg County High School. He has a bachelor;s degree in Geosciences and Archaeology and master of arts in U.S. History from Murray State University and Ph.D. in World History from Kansas State University. He came to academia after a 22-year career buying, processing and experting leaf tobacco to more than twenty countries.
Scope and Content: This collection consists of two slightly different copies of his book about tobacco, "Smoky Black Gold" and a jum/USB drive.
Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Rickey-Dale Calhoun
Tobacco
