Kentucky tobacco barns are stately relics of bygone era [audio 8min]

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 when November meant tobacco money. Burley tobacco for cigarettes, cash money for the farm. But now, many of the old warehouses are dark and cold. Auctioneers' chants are audio of the past. In the early 1990s, there were about 60,000 tobacco farmers in Kentucky. Last year, there were about 10,000. Webpage includes extended report by Noah Adams, photo gallery, song clips.