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...Katonah, New York--a 12,000-person hamlet an hour north of Times Square--has a long history of standing up for itself. In 1897, after the state condemned the town to make way for a reservoir to serve the booming metropolis to the south, residents picked up their homes and moved a mile away. Literally. They loaded more than 55 houses and stores onto log rails greased with laundry soap and used horses to pull the buildings to a new town site. The Move, which is commemorated at the Katonah library with a diorama, took six months...
That community feeling may well be part of what enticed Martha Stewart to buy a 152-acre (62 hectare) estate on the edge of town seven years ago. She later spent five months of house arrest there, and her company recently launched a furniture line named Katonah. But when the company moved to trademark the name Katonah for the furniture and a long list of other household goods last year, residents fought back. A February meeting--which featured Martha-made cookies--didn't prompt a withdrawal of the application, so the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS) and two businesses filed...
What followed was the epitome of small-town activism. First came the NOBODY OWNS KATONAH T shirts and the Marthometer, a parody newspaper handed out at the commuter-train station. By summer, a fund raiser to cover legal bills had been put together; local musician Marc Black sang about Chief Katonah, the town's Native American namesake, as members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian nation, who had been enlisted to share in the outrage, looked on. Two recent high school grads took to the Internet with another protest song ("You're a craftsman who can make a vase...
...through a range of unprintable emotions before reaching anger, which is where I am right now," says Jim McCormack, Kathleen's brother. Members of Durst's family say they fear that he might come after them next. In 2001 Robert allegedly drove to his younger brother Douglas' estate in Katonah, N.Y., armed with two guns...
...feeling of being totally lost. I didn't want to do anything. I didn't write songs, didn't even feel like playing. I'd been living in London, at the end of a relationship. I came back and ended up living in my mother's house in Katonah, N.Y., just to be among her things, her furniture and pots and pans. My sisters owned a restaurant in town, so I'd eat free there, every day for a year and a half...