Photo of Author (Kallie Johnston) with her grandparents (Albert and Faye Venable).
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.
Albert Venable's family sharecropped for Roy Horecky and brought their cotton to the Horecky Cotton Gin.
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.
Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.
For over 200 years, Cajuns in rural Acadiana cultivated coton jaune, an heirloom variety of cotton brown or beige in color, on a domestic scale for clothing and bedding. Blankets and sheets were…