The same scene keeps repeating as you drive through East Tennessee's valleys. After a century of hay production, a field receives a survey flag, a sign and finally a row of new homes. As more people relocate to the state and buyers seek out open land to build on, land that has been in one family for many generations is discreetly changing hands, and the pace has accelerated. A modest deed of the opposite kind stands out against that background since it was intentional and planned to remain forever. Regardless of what happens to the surrounding area, two sisters in Anderson County resolved that the farm where their father was born should remain a farm.
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