• Age: 46
• Interview Dates: 12/19/2007, 11/3/2008
• Interviewer: Robert Warren, Illinois State Museum
• Interview Length: 92 minutes Sit-Down Interview, 31 minutes Walk-and-Talk Interview
• County: Tazewell

To save the family farm, John (Ray Ackerman’s nephew) has transformed it from a typical grain and livestock operation. He now raises a variety of crops (pumpkins, ornamental gourds, mums, apples) and has opened the farm to agritourism.

         Ackerman Family Picnic, 1992                                                              Ackerman Farmhouse, 2007