A elderly Kentucky widow is facing eviction from her home of 55 years because a new highway project is planned to go straight through her living room.
Janet Arnett purchased 63 acres in Salyersville, KY with her late husband, Lowell, in 1969 where they planned to settle down and raise a family, WYMT-TV reports.
Their quaint home that sits on the Mountain Parkway took the couple nearly 29 years to build, as they lived in several mobile homes before its construction in 1998.
“It’s a small house, but to me it’s a mansion,” said Arnett.
Since Lowell’s death in 2015, Arnett has been busying herself taking care of the property and making memories with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the home.
“When I was growing up, Mamaw’s house was always this place of refuge,” Arnett’s granddaughter Zoe Parker, told WYMT-TV. “We cooked together. And this is where I grew up playing in the creek, catching crawdads, and catching lightning bugs.”
But Arnett could soon lose everything she has built.
The last phase of the Mountain Parkway Expansion, a 45-mile expansion road project through Eastern Kentucky, will demolish her home.
Arnett said the developers had visited her property over the years, warning
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