You may not know this about our family, but we spent two years literally living in a log cabin in the middle of the wilderness and I homeschooled my oldest child through kindergarten and first grade (my youngest was an infant and toddler at the time). Doesn’t that feel like what we are all doing now? Suddenly we are all thrust in the role of the Swiss Family Robinson, stockpiling supplies with no school on the horizon.
Do you want to hear about the scariest day of my life? It began very early on December 19, 2019. My sweet little towheaded 5-year-old boy had the flu, which had developed into pneumonia. We had been transferred from our local ER to UK Children’s Hospital, and every step along the way he had progressively gotten worse.
When we moved to Harlan County in 2015, Geoff began looking for a vacant downtown building to repurpose, and his focus was on Harlan. The building he fell in love with was the Buttermore Building, with its historic brick façade perched on Main Street. It was built in 1897 as Harlan’s first hotel, and the grandeur of its original purpose could still be felt.
