During the mid-afternoon lull at Hawk's Place, a restaurant and bar in Loretto, owner Larry Hawkins climbs a ladder to work on installling a new sign on the side of the building. Hawkins and son Joe Paul have run the business together for the past two years. EDT-Lynne Warren

Larry Hawkins tells stories that makes his sons, Albert (far left) and Joe Paul (far right), laugh during the dinner rush at the family-owner restaurant and bar in Loretto.

Joe Paul Hawkins and his wife Deiserre share a dance in the dim and smoky Loretto bar. Father and co-owner Larry Hawkins glances back to the bar, deciding whether or not he needs to help out.

"We start out with sixty potatoes," says Joe Paul Hawkins, "and the average batch is about forty when we're done." He and father Larry Hawkins fill the steaming twice-baked potatoes, one of the restaurant's specialties.

In the kitchen at Hawk's Place, Larry Hawkins checks his watch as son Joe Paul finishes smashing the potatoes fresh out of the oven.