Edith Macefield and her house
June 30, 2008 7:41 AM   Subscribe

A lone rebel against relentless Seattle yuppification Edith Macefield died two weeks ago at the age of 86. She refused to leave her tiny home in a filthy industrial Ballard neighborhood, saying "No" to a nearly million-dollar buyout offer from a developer. "I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she told the news reporters last October.
posted by Surfin' Bird (6 comments total)

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Covered in MetaTalk a few weeks back
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:44 AM on June 30, 2008


Surf moar.
posted by MrMoonPie at 7:44 AM on June 30, 2008


The word is not the bird.
posted by y2karl at 7:54 AM on June 30, 2008


If you were my kid, I'd spend it all before you got a chance to get anywhere near it.
posted by h00py at 7:59 AM on June 30, 2008


If you were her kids you'd be conjoined.
posted by dobbs at 8:00 AM on June 30, 2008


I'm squatting in this thread and I refuse to let it close!
posted by allen.spaulding at 8:02 AM on June 30, 2008


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