When I was a kid in East Tennessee, I looked at scenes of wide open spaces like that and simply couldn't imagine them. Where's the hill that has to be in the background? You see, in the hills of East Tennessee, the only level spaces are created by cutting them out of the side of a hill. Need a football stadium for a high school? No problem: build the bleachers as a retaining wall up the side of hill that was cut away when you created the field. There are lots of split-level homes.

Bob