ABSTRACT
This chapter makes us to understand in what ways border induces changes that lead notable families to experience downward mobility. It reveals that the traditional landed notables, rather than trade notables, suffer from the sense of falling from grace. "Falling from grace" is used in Katherine S. Newman's study on downward mobility with regard to the experiences of the American middle class, who fail in their commitment to the American dream. Even though traditional landed notables maintained middle and upper class positions among the native Kilis community, they experienced the cost of change as downward mobility. The members of notable families residing in the town center live in the midst of the ruins of their past legacy. The chapter shows a memory of notable families nostalgic image of their hometown, which refers to the recollections about their life in their homestead in rural Aleppo or their visits and participation in the social life of Aleppo city.
