Tobacco is still being grown in Lancaster County. This is a drying shed where clumps of harvested leaf are hung on poles in well-ventilated buildings to dry. The doors are kept open for air circulation and closed in inclement weather to facilitate drying. Sheds of his general type were a common site on the back roads of Prince George's County, Maryland, when I was growing up in the 1950s. I even remember a field trip in elementary school where we spent a day visiting a University of Maryland tobacco research facility, a tobacco farm and the local tobacco auction house. If you are old enough, and I am, you might remember an American Tobacco Company ad that included a bit of an auctioneer's chant ending with the phrase "Sold American."