Katherine Norton-Malek:
CLASS OF 1973
Hartford High SchoolClass of 1973
Hartford, CT
Bulkeley High SchoolClass of 1973
Hartford, CT
Immaculate Conception SchoolClass of 1969
Hartford, CT
Katherine's Story
Permanent move from Hartford to New York City in 1979. Lived & worked in the Big Apple. Wonderful yrs. living on Broadway between Prince & Spring St. in the heart of NY's Soho District. There, my 2nd son was born at Beekman Downtown Hosp. in 1983 while my oldest son Tyler was in school at Little Red Schoolhouse - a wonderful school - where some of his little classmates were the likes of people like Lulu Johnson (who had a mad crush on him) Betsy Johnson's only daughter & Seth Eastman (of the Eastman Kodak fam)...how snarky of me! B'way loft living - were exciting wonderful yrs.
Not long after my 2nd son was born, I began driving out of the city on weekends looking for a country retreat. Bought a place in Monroe NY. Living on B'way will do that to you. No matter how wonderful most aspects of NY city life is, and being a born & bred diehard 'city girl' - I entered the "I need some space to smell the flowers" stage, wanted to ride horses and plant a garden. My son was 9 yrs. old and did not know how to play baseball or swim. Learning to ride his bike in Washington Sq. Pk. was a challenge but he did. I loved my Soho-nes...Expand for more
s during the wk., but on the weekends when I could not get a box of Cheerios or a loaf of Wonder bread but could find every exotic imported trendy obscure au natural vegetable from Tibet or Bora Bora ....... quiet dark soho became a booming tourist trap almost over night. They closed the "Grand Onion" as my son called it (Grand Union grocery store) and replaced it with Dean & Delucca, Spring St. Market, imported food boutiques & French bakeries. Not that I didn't love all those stores and the new art galleries & art to wear boutiques ... I certainly did. But it became increasingly difficult to feed two children on guava nectar, miso soup and they were having nothing to do with sushi! Piled 2 little guys, one guinea pig named Abbey and a nanny named Frenchie, into a rented station wagon and drove up to the beautiful Hudson Valley. Traded a trendy NYC loft for a farm house - a real farmhouse, that was charming secluded and in need of much work (cha-ching). Commuted to NYC for yrs. - that was no treat. While I sold the farm house for something less Green Acres-ish... I now call New York's beautiful Hudson Valley my home.
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