“My land's in terrible shape. It’s just burned. Rain? We ain't had nothin'. It was rough in the 30’s, it was bad just like now, but everything was cheap then, and now everythings high. My dad toughed it out, hell he stayed here from 1907 to 1984; he made some good crops, some bad crops, and some none crops. He built that house in ’61. I helped build it. It's home to me and I want to stay here till I die. From where I sit there used to be a house on every 160 acre plot, 45 houses within about four miles of here. They aint there no more, the schoolhouse, it’s gone too.”

Albert ‘Ham on Eggs’ Arnold, 70.