we have floors like that. One of the wood-knots looks like a cartoon lion singing from where you sit on the pot...
John Scopes is buried in a cemetery about 20 miles from me. I saw the movie Inherit The Wind when I was about 12 or so. It is based on the "Scopes' Monkey Trial" that took place in the state of Tennessee in 1925. John Scopes was an early hero of mine. My dad and I stopped there for a look a few years ago.