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In these farmhouses, all generations of two or more families, plus farmhands paid in room and board, plus livestock, lived together, the people sleeping one story above the stables so that in winter steamy animal heat rose to them through the floorboards.—Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026