the tobacco shed barn Many sheds in the Connecticut River Valley are still used to dry tobacco leaves that will wrap some of the worlds most expensive cigars THE TOBACCO SHED CAFE -

The exhibition takes its name from an RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company advertising campaign in newspapers and on radio from the late-1940s to the early-1950s: More Doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. The advertisements in this exhibition were selected from more than 1000 uncut magazines and medical journals collected by Doris and Alan Blum beginning in the late-1970s during his residency in family medicine at the University of Miami

Without PR firms bringing them together, these industries and companies may have tended to stay in their own worlds, but the type of cross-pollination Hill enabled was hugely influential

4 JULY 2008

Blood spurted not down the younger mans face, but in a long, casual arc, before splashing down amidst the quicksilver dust like water droplets in a bowl of flour