The Death of a Farm

I just discovered this photo essay by Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante, in which he examines a farm in Lockport, IL that undergoes transformation into a cookie-cutter subdivision. It's a really beautiful piece and it's interesting to see a sort of reconciliation made between the agrarian past and the present. My dislike for new subdivisions, generic construction, and the destruction of America's farming heritage is by no means mitigated by this work, but I can certainly see that sometimes such progress (if it can be called that), is the natural course of things and that the inevitable can only be delayed so much.