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This autumn marks the third harvest since Virgil Vaughn's death, but his passion for pecans has kept his intimate farm and family business going. A nutty legacy: How this family harvests 800 ...
In the 1930s, with a Model A Ford coupe borrowed from a friend and $35 borrowed from his grandmother, W.S. Stuckey Sr., drove around the Eastman, Georgia countryside buying pecans from local farmers and selling them to pecan processors. [3] Stuckey made over $4,500 his first year in the pecan business.
The world's largest 20th-century pecan—a concrete replica—is located along Highway 24 in downtown Brunswick. It measures seven by twelve feet and weighs twelve thousand pounds. It was constructed in 1982 by George James in honor of the Starking Hardy Giant pecan, which he discovered on his property in 1947. [10]
The pecan (/ p ɪ ˈ k æ n / pih-KAN, also US: / p ɪ ˈ k ɑː n, ˈ p iː k æ n / pih-KAHN, PEE-kan, UK: / ˈ p iː k ən / PEE-kən; Carya illinoinensis) is a species of hickory native to the Southern United States and northern Mexico in the region of the Mississippi River.
A pecan grove is an orchard for pecans, see pecan grove (orchard). For locations named Pecan Grove see: Pecan Grove (Church Hill, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi; Pecan Grove, Texas; Pecan Grove, Collin County, Texas, an unincorporated community
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Butter pecan is a flavor, prominent especially in the southern United States, in ice cream, cakes, and cookies. The flavor is an element of soul food , the cuisine of Black Americans . Poet Maya Angelou recalled that Black Americans could eat vanilla ice cream only on the 4th of July .
The "World's Largest Pecan" is a 5-ft-long, two-and-a-half-ft-wide concrete nut erected in 1962; it sits in front of the county courthouse. This county is a large producer of pecans and often claims the nickname "Pecan Capital of Texas". Seguin has been described as "a big pecan orchard with a small town in it". [71]