Adrienne Petty
Assistant Professor, City College of New York
Current Project
A history of small landowning tobacco farmers in North Carolina.
Best Place for an Agricultural History Conference
Anywhere but New York City!
Hobbies
Crossword puzzles, Scrabble, Boggle and any other word games, gardening
Favorite Historical Figure
Pauli Murray. I'm also fascinated by Tom Watson and Toussaint L'Ouverture
Favorite Agricultural/Rural Movie
I don't have one, but I have two favorite books:Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Charles Van Onselen, and The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985.