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Find out more about Laura: Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com. |
Somewhere in heaven, there's a little Craftsman bungalow waiting for the arrival of Edith Macefield. And hopefully, this little house in the great beyond will not be boxed in by six-story walls of steel girders and concrete, the way Edith Macefield's home in Ballard was in the final years of the Ballard resident's life.
Myballard.com is reporting today that Macefield, 86, died Sunday after emergency vehicles were seen coming and going from her abode on N.W. 46th St. -- the one she refused to sell to developers for $1 million.
Trader Joe's will come to Ballard. So, too, a new fitness center. All signs of progress will continue off that bustling, hot little real-estate/retail area beneath the Ballard Bridge. No doubt, Macefield's house will now succumb to the tear-down she avoided in her battle to stay in the house that had been her home the past 56 years.
Edith Macefield fought the good fight; a one-woman resistence movement against the raging tide of development "progress." Now let's hope she's off to a more permanently hospitable dwelling, one without cranes and jackhammers and cement trucks rattling her windows and doors.
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