Introducing the Farmers

Photographs and video stills introduce some of the farmers interviewed by Cynthia Vagnetti in her field research. Photos and video images by Cynthia Vagnetti from the Voices in the Field Collection.

“I don’t see any future for the farm. I have to wonder about what’s going to happen. I don’t want to sell, and then sometimes I think we should, but I don’t know. I don’t think my father would want us to sell, I feel it’s special to us because it came down from my grandfather to my father to us.”

Opal Ragsdale, Jacksonville, Texas – Cherokee County from People Sustaining the Land by Cynthia Vagnetti, 2002.