With temperatures still in the 90s and the heat index often over 100, you have to wonder how our ancestors dealt with the heat in the days before air conditioning. With wide shaded porches and dogtrot hallways, or breezeways like on the Gibeon Jefferson Sullivan 1874 double pen log cabin in Wagarville. The family dog, or dogs, often preferred the shady open hallways that sometimes caught a local breeze, hence the name. People living in a dogtrot house liked the space and the porches, too, and they were like another room of the house. Our ancestors got by just fine...

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