• Age: 62
• Interview Date: 11/24/2008
• Interviewer: Michael Maniscalso, Illinois State Museum
• Interview Length: 84 minutes Sit-Down Interview, 47 minutes Walk-and-Talk Interview
• County: Greene
• Stephen is a retired conservation advisor for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. He is now a fifth-generation farmer on his family’s sesquicentennial farm, which was established in 1821 in the middle of an upland prairie.

       Margaret Black, circa 1850                                                      Thomas Black, 1891                                            Robert and Lucy Black, 1950s