People placed great importance on privacy.
They believed that every mountain held its secrets.
But by the middle of the 20th century, even the most isolated families had connected to the modern world.
The power lines reached the countryside.
Widened roads.
Children were required to go to school.
Medical services have become more accessible.
However, the Dalharts remained separated.
Then, after World War II, something changed.
The family seemed to disappear.
No smoke rose from their chimneys.
No light appeared at their windows.
No one saw them shopping in town.
The old farmhouse slowly deteriorated.
The fields became covered in weeds.
The place has become a place of constant transit.
Some thought the family had moved.
Others believed that the last members had died.
Eventually, the lands of Hollow Ridge became nothing more than a forgotten memory.
