When her father’s death forces Petra to leave school and shell pecans in a factory with her stepmother, Amá, the 13-year-old mourns her lost dreams of graduating and becoming a writer. In 1930s San ...
After years of workshopping and countless smashed pecan meats, Bland Quantz perfected a pecan-cracking machine. This is a modern version. The original prototype of the Quantz cracking machine is in ...
CAMERON, S.C. — The Golden Kernel Pecan Company in Cameron, South Carolina, was founded in 1924. For 100 years, the family-owned business has become a household name in Calhoun County for shelling ...
Crowds gathered Sunday at Cassiano Park on the city’s West Side to jubilantly celebrate the 84th anniversary of the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike and American labor leader Emma Tenayuca, the San Antonio ...