Ken Pralle’s home outside Wymore has been a construction site for more than a decade, with exposed insulation, steel rungs of scaffolding, plastic lining drawn like curtains.
Pralle’s home sits at a crossroads of his family’s past and coming future, but he said that future is uncertain. His renovations, which started in 2009, froze in the early 2010s after he was hit by what he calls a “tsunami” of property taxes.