Gretchen Graehl has learned how to live “very small” over the past 13 years in the tiny log cabin fourplex she’s rented during that time, with appliances that are so small she jokes it’s no surprise the eight-acre community has earned the nickname ‘Hobbitville.’
The wood inside is crumbling; the porch upstairs is rickety and has long needed repairs; and she and her neighbors have been harassed for years on weekends by groups of high school and college students who drive through, honking their horns and occasionally damaging property as they look for the dwarves rumored to live in the area.