Before and after . . . restoration at Old Salem


Christoph Vogler House Native Perspectives, continued


this country’s premier prosecutorial office. In his eighteen years there he served with three DAs, including fifteen years with Robert Morgenthau who just retired last year after being “The World’s District Attorney” for thirty-five years. Morgenthau was the model for the original DA in the televi- sion show “Law and Order.” For his last six years working in New York, Hoyt was head of the Homicide Investigation Unit. One of his co-workers there, another assistant district attorney, was Linda Fairstein of the sex crimes unit, who has since become a world famous author of crime/mystery novels. Her books usually feature New York attorneys. We’ll have to re-read some of her best sellers to see if any of her fictional characters resemble Bill! In 1990, Hoyt left the DA’s office in New York to join the


U.S. Attorney’s office in Miami where he handled everything from public corruption and major crime to fraud and narcot- ics cases for about five years. On a trip to New York, where he had kept an apartment, Bill looked up an old friend named Kathy from Swarthmore. In the twenty-five years they had been out of touch she had been married and had two chil- dren. Their renewed aquaintance evolved and Bill and Kathy were married in 2002.


John Vogler House


Winkler Bakery Bill’s mother, who died in 1998, had left the Ebert-Reich


House to him. He and Kathy decided to make Old Salem their home base. They sold their place in Miami and a couple of years later sold and bought another apartment in New York. The primary reason for changing places in New York was to have an approving apartment for the third, and precocious and preeminent, member of their household, Fritz, a Jack Russell terrier. The nine-year-old Fritz thoroughly enjoys his role as only dog, especially on long walks around Old Salem. Since coming home, Bill has tried to act as negotiator


between Old Salem, Salem Academy and College, and Home Moravian Church to find a solution to the perpetual parking problems in the historic district. He has also been a consistent voice for Salem residents’ efforts to preserve and increase the number of trees in the district. Writing a non-fiction book about his experiences as a lawyer in The Big Apple is his cur- rent avocation. When asked about his favorite part of living in Old Salem


as an adult he said, “Kathy and I are history buffs. We love the atmosphere of the old house and appreciate what Old Salem has accomplished in preserving and reconstructing many of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century homes and buildings with some of their natural setting. We like the quiet streets and places to walk with our dog. We also enjoy the Salem College


Community Store


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Old Salem Museums & Gardens


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