Fading Way of Life

Eddie Hill (left) talks with his father Ed "Buck" Hill at their family farm near Lebanon, Ky. Age has caught up with the Buck, who has all but given the responsibility of operating the farm to his youngest son Eddie. "Eddie's the boss now," Buck said.

When the word came that one of the cows on Hill Acres was escaping through a hole in the fence, Ed "Buck" Hill (foreground) and his son Eddie responded to make the necessary repairs. Eddie is the only child of seven that chose to remain on the farm, and his father is extending the responsibility to his son.

Eddie Hill picks loose tobacco leaves off the dirt floor of a barn at Hill's Acres near Lebanon, Ky.

After coaxing a cow into a small grazing area, Ed "Buck" Hill ties a cattle fence on his farm near Lebanon, Ky. Age has caught up with the senior farmer, who has all but given the responsibility of operating the 490-acre farm to his youngest son Eddie. In addition to the cattle operation, the two grow tobacco, corn and soy beans.

Ed "Buck" Hill (left), is the patriarch of Hill Acres, a 490-acre farm near Lebanon, Ky., exits a barn where harvested and dried tobacco is striped, sorted and baled by migrant workers from south central Mexico. His son Eddie, his youngest son from a family of seven children, is the only child to remain on the farm.

Eddie (left) and his father Ed "Buck" Hill return from making repairs on a cattle fence on Hill Acres near Lebanon, Ky. Buck and his wife Mary have raised seven children at his farm in Lebanon, Ky. Eddie is the only child of seven that chose to remain on the farm, and his father is extending the responsibility to his son.