The woman’s story starts online. She said she ordered cigars from Thompson Cigar Company, which were shipped from their fulfillment center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A box arrived July 27.

Automation arrived. By the 1930s, many factories had installed giant cigar-making machines. Four women worked each machine, including a “feeder” who fed it a constant supply of tobacco.

The first two episodes of “The Big Cigar,” starring Holland, Boone, Moses Ingram, Alessandro Nivola, P.J. Byrne, and more drop Friday, May 17 with new episodes appearing each Friday after.

Talk cigar lounges, bars, clubs and trends with women at Tailored Smoke in Concord, The Vintage in Charlotte and The Saddle Club in Mooresville.

The woman’s story starts online. She said she ordered cigars from Thompson Cigar Company, which were shipped from their fulfillment center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A box arrived July 27.