Forge farm, Paris, Kentucky, 1950s

In the 1950s, the Forge farm is run effectively like a brutal dictatorship by the unforgiving patriarch, John Henry Forge. John Henry grows corn on his farm, as he believes this is the most properly upper-class thing to do. However, John Henry is incredibly savage as he runs the farm, as he is believed to have murdered a servant when the servant is discovered to be having an affair with John Henry's wife. Since this was a time of Jim Crow laws in the American South, John Henry also operates with an inherently racist view of the world around him.

Forge Run Farm, Paris, Kentucky, 1980s and 1990s

Forge Run Farm has profoundly changed between the era when Henry was a child and the era, in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Henry raised his own daughter, Henrietta. John Henry has long passed away...