 Thrall, placed over 300 acres of prime tobacco growing land up for sale, which is almost half of the remaining amount of acreage in production for shade grown tobacco.Pockets of the crop remain in production in Connecticut Towns such as Windsor, East Windsor, Suffield and Enfield.The 1952 novel "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck is set partially on a farm in Connecticut, where character Charles Trask improves the land in part by planting tobacco.