GARRISON, KY – The gravel road to U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie's home snakes its way up a hill, past a tree he's tapping for maple syrup, and ends at a home he built of timber and stones he hand-chiseled.
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His house sits at the top of a hill on his 1,500-acre farm in this town, about 100 miles east of Cincinnati. It took about four years of work before his wife and kids were able to move in.
"We have a double-wide up this holler that we lived in for a while," he said. "Nine hundred square feet with four kids, and I kept telling her, 'Honey I'll have the house livable any day now.'"
That was more than two decades ago, long before the Kentucky Republican became a regular foil to President Donald Trump.
