La Jolla it ain't

This farmhouse was occupied until about the time the Great Smokies NP was established in 1934. Amazingly, a farming family raised nine (9) children in this little two room house! It's high in the hills, by a rushing stream, where there is little flat land and zillions of rocks. Build a house, clear land, build a road...deal with the rocks. Hot in summer with snakes and thunderstorms...cold in winter with snow and ice. Mud periodically throughout. Talk about a rough life! They had 72 acres. 30 were planted in corn, the rest were left in timber which was cut as needed. But they survived. I reckon we modern middle class blokes are spoilt rotten.