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Sep 11, 2026
Sep 11, 2026 Updated Sep 14, 2026
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Gun control is one of the most controversial social issues in the United States. The supporters of gun control think that reasonable laws can reduce gun violence, prevent slip-ups and make a safer environment/community.

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From the Archives: Virginia peanut farms

peanuts — 10-21-1963 (cutline): J.J. Lilley of Sussex County shows weather effect on peanuts. Drought-damaged vines (on left) are compared with bunch from normal crop.
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peanuts — 10-30-1967 (cutline): A 10-acre field of peanut shocks near Newsoms is a sign of the season.
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peanuts — 10-02-1977 (cutline): Leroy Byrd raises peanuts on land in Sussex where crop got started.
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peanuts — 12-24-1951: Peanut harvest
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peanuts — 10-07-1962 (cutline): A modern improvement to drying peanuts is forced air drying. Together with combine use, this saves money.
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peanuts — 01-22-1962 (cutline): Peanuts aren't usually standing in the shock this time in January--the picking's normally done by about mid-December--and in face nearly all of it was finished before that this season, the crop experts say. But scattered fields like this still dotted some areas last week, monuments to a very wet early winter. Surveying this one is Curley Parker, 14, whose family are tenants for R. H. Stephenson Jr., of Littleton, Sussex County.
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peanuts — 10-07-1962 (cutline): Workers move swiftly to pile peanuts in shocks for curing. This method is still followed by most southside Virginia farmers.
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peanuts — 12-05-1959: Hot air blowers dry peanuts.
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peanuts — 01-09-1958 (cutline): Bulk peanuts await weighing in at station at Homeville.
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peanuts — 12-05-1959 (cutline): Peanut vines are forked into piles for beef cattle feed.
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peanuts — 10-12-1947 (cutline): Jenkins in middle of 46-acre peanut field in which he saw nine deer at one time.
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peanuts — 12-21-1950: Peanut hay
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peanuts — 11-02-1953 (cutline): Peanuts being delivered by conveyor to truck get appraisal from Cockes, who reported later this batch brought his best price yet.
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peanuts — 09-19-1976 (cutline): The peanut's roots run deep in Virginia. Peanuts are one of the state's major money crops.
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