 The main families were the Skerba, Reynolds, Austens, and Farrells.When the series began, Haviland's richest citizen, widowed Kate Austen (Kathleen Maguire) wrote a novel, in the same manner as Main Street, which showed Haviland's citizens in a less than perfect light.After the novel was stopped by her publisher, she and her son, Chris (Richard Thomas), left Haviland, never to return.