cherish and endure

You have to cherish the world at the same time you struggle to endure it.
--Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) American author.

With its idyllic setting, its easy to forget that life for the early settlers in beautiful Cades Cove was a daily struggle for existence. John Oliver (1793-1863) and his wife Lucretia (1795–1888), the first permanent white settlers in Cades Cove, built the above cabin in the early 1820s.