Abandoned by her husband in the Appalachian hills of northeast Tennessee with two small children on an rural farm in a one room cabin, New York native and artist Lee Hoellman persevered. With the help of the local 'hillbillies' she made a life for herself and her children while at the same time building a 'patchwork' house over the next 20 years, adding on unusual rooms one-by-one on the aside of a steep hill in the spirit of Swiss Family Robinson.—Anonymous