1.   For the last several years, the Amarillo, Texas, resident has made it his mission to preserve, protect and promote a vanishing way of life.

2.   He also considered turning the farm into an agrarian Disneyland, inviting the public to pick their own fruit and gawk at the vanishing ways of farmers.

3.   Others, though, see it as a sign of a vanishing way of life.

4.   Their revolt is a last-ditch attempt to preserve a vanishing way of life.