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...veterans well know, make-a-difference sojourns often attract repeat customers. "It's lifechanging," says Barbara Jenkel, 68, of her 2005 caravan with Relief Riders International through India's Rajasthan Desert. On the 15-day trip, which included a night in a 257-year-old fort, the retiree from Chappaqua, N.Y., helped set up medical camps and distribute books to schools and goats to poor families. She found the experience so inspiring that she's going back in October. Volunteer vacations also channel tourism dollars to places that aren't usually featured in glossy travel brochures and don't have...
...still trek around town regularly. Nearly everyone has a story about greeting the charismatic former President (the "nicest guy in the world," according to a manager at the Clintons' local deli, Lange's), being in a store when a Clinton came in (the duo has visited nearly all of Chappaqua's shops and restaurants), or just watching Bill stroll by on one of his frequent walks (always with Secret Service agents alongside and often with the Clinton dog, Seamus). Both Clintons play public figures everywhere they go: gracious, attentive, approachable. That's probably why - even among those angered...
...Senator, who works in Washington, strives for quality time with her fellow Chappaquans. She concentrates her limited time in town on organized events. She presided at the swearing-in of Janet Wells, town supervisor of New Castle (which includes Chappaqua) both times Wells was elected to that post. There's the citizenship induction she led as First Lady, the storytime for tots she held the day she picked up her public-library card, the reading from her memoirs. Earlier this year the Chappaqua School Foundation gave Hillary its inaugural "It Takes a Village" award (named after the senator...
...however, the Clintons haven't put down roots in the town, at least in the conventional way. They seem to have few close friends here, and no regular church. But Chappaqua is well-suited to them. It keeps a pleasant hometowny charm, and yet is indisputably affluent and worldly. It's home to many successful executives working in nearby New York City. Here in Chappaqua, even with a tall security fence and Secret Service vehicles parked outside, the Clintons' Dutch Colonial (bought in 1999 for $1.7 million) can seem modest. "This is not a gossipy town," says Janet Stephens...
...Perhaps that's why, despite initial traffic snarls and security inconveniences, Chappaqua has adapted so easily to the Clintons' presence. "There's a real sense of pride now, of propriety," says Andrea Klausner, president of the Chappaqua School Foundation. And if there's one thing nearly everyone in town is keen to tell you, it's that the Clintons' arrival has put their little hamlet on the map. "You used to say, 'Chappaqua,' and people would ask, 'Is that where Kennedy drove off the bridge?'" says George Haletzky, a manager at Lange's who has lived in town since...