"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.