[Grinding Sorghum Cane]
Description:
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014
Sorghum cane is fed into a press where the juice is extracted and collected latter to be boiled down in large vats to turn it into molasses.
Overall Background:
These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images …
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Date:
194X
Creator:
Clark, Joe
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