In 2022, a small group of people formed a nonprofit organization, Payne Hollow on the Ohio, which has bought the remote 40-acre property and begun the work of stabilizing it after decades of neglect, Karla Ward writes:

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The couple spent time daily playing music — he on violin and she on a grand piano they had carried a mile down to their cabin from the nearest road.

They read classic literature aloud to one another, sometimes in foreign languages.

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Born at the turn of the 20th century, they married in their 40s and spent years floating a houseboat down the river before moving to Payne Hollow in Trimble County, Ky.

They built a home and studio without electricity, and they gardened, fished, foraged and raised goats.

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