All Gawd's Chilluns Got Troubles

SCOTUS Associate Justice David Souter did not retire to his famously dilapidated ancestral manse.

The modest colonial-era farmhouse that sits on the dirt-covered Cilley Hill Road in Weare is "old and rustic," as Gilman describes it, and has been in the Souter family for generations. A moose-brown paint coats parts of the exterior; other areas are peeling like a bad sunburn. The lawn, surrounded by a towering pines, could use a good mow, but the house is otherwise charming - what one might expect to find in an old-fashioned New England homestead.

Aesthetics be damned though, it's the life of the mind for the erstwhile justice, who had to move

... because his Weare house wasn't structurally sound enough to hold the thousands of books that make up his library. "He said there was just so much weight from the books, it would be too much for the house to support," Gilman said. "He said he wants to live on one floor."

One floor? Hell, it's a physical impossibility to be in two rooms at the same time. Why so greedy, book-larnin' elitist?