Jeff Cotterill, 56, of Albany, Ohio operates a combine on his family farm in Albany, Ohio, Apr 4, 2019. The Cotterill farm is 900 acres, was bought by Jeff's father, Paul Cotterill, in 1955, and is comprised of wheat, corn, and soybeans.
Elizabeth Yandazi, 53, of Albany, Ohio, visits her mother, Hannah Walsh, 83, of Albany, Ohio, at Eddy Hawthorne Ridge assisted living, in Albany, Ohio, Mar 3, 2019. Yandazi visits her mother everyday who is afflicted with alzheimer's and dementia.
Trinity Sanders, 18, of Albany, Ohio, stands with her family before the last basketball game for Alexander High School, Feb. 15, 2019. Alexander High School honors each of their graduating seniors during their final games of the season by having them stand with their family before the whole stadium, and also by setting up a table to commemorate their time at the school.
Family and friends gather round Jeffrey Tylor Gillette's gravestone marking the one memorial of his death, Alexander, Ohio, Mar 2, 2019. After six months of chemo, Gillette died at the age of 26 of cancer in his kidney.
Electa A's grave, she was the wife of Alexander Nelson, she Died July 27, 1874, and lived 33 years, Alexander Presbyterian Church, Alexander, Ohio, Apr. 1, 2019. Alexander Presbyterian Church was formed in 1832, was one of the first formal representations of religion in the Albany/Alexander region, and houses many of the more historic gravesites in the area.
Emily Sementilli, 18, of Albany, Ohio holds her foster sister inside Albany Baptist Church during a Wedding Shower, Albany, Ohio, Mar 17, 2019. Albany Baptist Church is home to multiple different foster families.
Albany, Ohio is home to multiple denominations of protestant Christians, and Albany United Methodist Church is the manifestation of about one third of the Christian belief in Albany, Ohio, Feb 24, 2019.
Rhys Whealey, 9, of Athens, Ohio works on counting up his merits from the end of the day with the help of his teacher in the Haugland Learning Center, Albany, Ohio, Mar 28, 2019. Students at Haugland can receive merits in exchange for good behavior, and can spend those merits on different kinds of free time and/or prizes.
Erin Steenrod, 15, of Albany, Ohio, walks her pet goat, Champ, along with her mother, Veronica Steenrod, of Albany, Ohio, and her step brother, Owen Howard, 17, of Albany, Ohio, Mar. 30, 2019. Steenrod cultivates her goat as a part of the 4-H program, which teaches life skills to students in high school.
Jeff Cotterill, 56, of Albany, Ohio tills the soil of his family farm in Albany, Ohio, Apr 4, 2019. The Cotterill farm is 900 acres, was bought by Jeff's father, Paul Cotterill, in 1955, and is comprised of wheat, corn, and soybeans.
Rylee Cunningham, 21, of Athens, Ohio, sells alcohol and Dr. Pepper to Fred Gamble, 38, of Albany, Ohio, at the Marathon Station in Alexander, Ohio, Mar 21, 2019. Albany, Ohio has been a dry village for over a century, and the closest vender of alcohol is the Marathon Station down the street.
Donald Comer, 84, of Albany, Ohio, was a mechanical engineer specializing in boilers for Ohio University for 40 years, and here he sits in the home he laid the foundations for in Albany, Ohio, Feb. 17, 2019. Comer is a devout Methodist, and brags that, "There’s never been a beer or a drop of alcohol in this house."
Eric Cotterill, 31, of Albany, Ohio stands inside one of his holding silos that can fill 63 semi-trucks full of corn or soybeans Apr 4, 2019. Silos provide a space for farmers to preserve their crop until the market can dictate a buyer, and this gives farmers more control over the quality of the crop they harvest.
Sally Ball, 77, of Alexander, Ohio is left to take care of her husband's farm after his untimely demise, Alexander, Ohio , Feb. 24, 2019. Ball reports that they just put that fence up, "seven years ago, and it's already falling back down."
Bill Smith, of Vinton County, sits in the foyer of Calvary Assembly of God in McArthur, Ohio, watching the entrance to the church on a Sunday morning, Mar 3, 2019.
Sergeant Kyle Calendine, of the Albany, Ohio Police Department, pulled over a car full of three male minors during a, "routine traffic stop," on Carpenter Rd. in Albany, Ohio, Mar. 30, 2019. Chief of Police, Robert Deardorff later released the statement that, "Through his investigation, Sgt. Calendine located reported marijuana and prescription pills, along with a scale used for weighing the marijuana."
Mayor Tim Kirkendal (center) of Albany, Ohio meets with Neal Reynolds (left), the President of the Albany Village Council, of Albany, Ohio, and Larry Payne (right), a former mayor of the Village of Albany, of Albany, Ohio, in Kirkendal's office to discuss plans to expand Albany's water facilities and piping, Feb. 21, 2019. Albany, Ohio's infrastructure is valuable to the surrounding townships, especially Alexander, because they are actually customers of the Village of Albany's water facilities.
Eric Cotterill, 31, of Albany, Ohio, communicates with his father, Jeff Cotterill, 56, of Albany, Ohio, over the phone on location, while his father tills soil from one of the sites that they rent for their farm, Apr. 4, 2019. In Albany, the Cotterills are forced to rent more land to try to move a profit, when it comes to farming.
Chuck Horvath, 65, of Albany, Ohio, sits with Gene Smith, 62, of Albany, Ohio in Ray's Harvest House in Albany, Ohio, Apr. 2, 2019. Horvath and Smith are both retired, and now drive school buses together. "Buckeyes, Trump, and fishing... That's what we live for," says Smith.
Brothers Strong Irwin, 4, of Albany, Ohio, and Stone Markins, 17, of Albany, Ohio, pose for senior photos Erica Matheny in the Alexander High School men's locker room, Alexander, Ohio, Feb 10, 2019.
Debbie Essman, of Albany, Ohio, walks Jaimeson Hayes, of Albany, Ohio and Dixie the dog through downtown Albany, Ohio on Washington Rd. Mar 28, 2019.
James kearnes, 58, of Albany, Ohio sits down to have breakfast with Robert Lockheed, 64, of Athens, ohio at Ray's Harvest House in Albany, Ohio, Apr. 2, 2019. Kearnes has lived in Albany for 25 years, and has made the Harvest House part of his routine.
Debra West, 66 of Alexander, Ohio lives across the street from her son Travis West, and down the road a little further is Gene Weber, her uncle, Gene Weber, who is now in his 90's, and Travis West works all three plots of land, which are full farms in and of themselves, Alexander, Ohio, Mar 4, 2019. It's not unusual to find family generations clustered under a farm that doesn't bring them any money in Albany and the surrounding territories.
