The Fagans

Yoon Byun

Ohio University

I'm trying to train them to be oxen,' says Travis as he pulls two steers with his bare hands across a field on the family's 100 acre property. The land originally belonged to Linda's family but was eventually sold when Linda was nine to the local coal company to be used for strip mining. Linda bought back the land when she was 18 and seven years later she moved onto the land with her husband Ken. According to the U.S. Census of Agriculture, Ohio's farmland diminished from about 21 million acres in 1950 to 14 million in 2002.

Yoon Byun, "The Fagans," in POYi Archive, Item #45786, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45786 (accessed April 19, 2025).