ST. LOUIS – The 1933 Funsten Nut Strike, led by thousands of Black women, helped lead the way in the fight for fairness in the workforce. The nine-day strike at R.E. Funsten pecan-processing factories ...

Harvest is under way, finally, at the world's largest all-in-one pecan growing and processing operation — The Green Valley Pecan Co. This year's harvest didn't get going in earnest until after ...

Our beautiful mother, Lillian C. Renfroe, passed away at home on February 15th and woke up in the presence of God, her husband of 70 years, Jake, and her beautiful daughter Dee who had passed before ...

Nearly 100 years after the events it chronicles, Bread and Roses Missouri, an arts nonprofit dedicated to highlighting the stories of labor workers, is bringing the story of the Funsten Nut Picker ...

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And not just any pecans. Big Valley Pecan Farm in San Saba County, with an asking price of $25 million, belongs to the third-generation heirs of one O.P. Leonard, who was born in northeast Texas at ...

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