This film, Cotton Hills Farm, is a piece of an ongoing larger project comprised of discrete, yet interconnected works. The final result will be included as a chapter in my dissertation “Southern Community, Commerce, and Representation in the Global Age.” Looking at my hometown of Chester, South Carolina and the closure of local industry, namely cotton mills, as a case study for my project, I seek to use visual ethnography, in this particular instance the mode of observational cinema, to explore the relationship between culture, relationships, space, and place. This section of my project seeks to give a sense of daily work at Cotton Hills Farm, which has been passed down through the Wilson family since after the Civil War, and whose stability serves as a counterpoint to my hometown, Chester County, that currently has an official unemployment rate of 21 percent. Additionally, I seek to evoke the southern past and present by showing and not telling, and to provide “voices” access that may otherwise not be seen or heard.