The director's cousin, Langdon Ames, is at the center the film.
"A distinctly American story about everyday people and their struggle to preserve the things they cherish... quietly urgent." - Pulse Magazine
"Passionate." - Syracuse New Times
"Poignant and beautiful... the film dodges all the usual cliches about small town life and gets at something more meaningful." - Wisconsin State Journal
"A serenely stunning portrait... an empathetic and quietly compassionate look at an American way of life." - The Daily Cardinal
"A rich tapestry... a wonderfully personal look at that great American institution, the family farm." - Isthmus Weekly
James Spione's first documentary feature details his family’s five-generation struggle to maintain a small dairy farm in Richfield Springs, New York. Drawing on interviews with nine family members, Spione's intricately woven narrative about the Ames homestead in many ways tells the story of America in the twentieth century--a journey from a time when family-centered agrarian life was the norm, to the more fractured, mobile, urban-centered culture of the modern age. A heartfelt elegy for a vanishing way of life.