The roots of our business,
Sticks and More, began
with tobacco sticks.
Our connection with them started way
before we were born.
If you grew up in eastern North Carolina, you probably already know what a tobacco stick is.
For those of you who don't,
here's a quick explanation
and a little about what we do with those sticks...
It's been said that
"Home is where your story begins."
Our story began on tobacco farms in
Greene County, North Carolina.
Every summer of our childhood
was spent putting in tobacco.
This is Daddy in a tobacco field in 1968.
The green tobacco leaves that he's
standing by were "primed"
and then sewn on to tobacco sticks.
The sticks were hung in
tobacco barns and cured.
Then the tobacco was taken off the sticks,
taken to a tobacco warehouse and sold.
The tobacco sticks, however; were saved and used over and over again...year after year.
Today, tobacco farmers for the most part
do not use tobacco sticks.
BUT...those tobacco sticks,
many of which are over 100 years old,
are still stored in packhouses
all over North Carolina.
For the past 15 years, we've been recycling tobacco sticks in to gifts.
We make...
Tobacco Stick Angels
Tobacco Stick Crosses
Tobacco Walking Sticks
Tobacco Stick Snowmen
Tobacco Stick Stars
...just to name a few!
We love all the "MORE" that we sell in our gift shop, Sticks and More, in Snow Hill.
BUT...as we gear up to produce our
Christmas inventory of "stick stuff,"
we pause and reflect that
home is truly where your story begins.
We're proud to share a bit of our
tobacco stick heritage with you!
