I grew up in the midst of the tobacco culture of southern Virginia, and I have watched tobacco change from being the sustaining economic force for hundreds of communities to being an industrialized commodity produced by a few large-scale growers. The "family farm" is gone for tobacco just as it is for most of agriculture in the United States. The Thirteen Month Crop project, which was completed in 2001 and is now a traveling exhibit, addresses this issue, chronicling the last years of one tobacco farm and the effect the loss of individual farms has on farm communities and therefore on our culture as a whole.