Opinion
Regarding “Walking in Shadow of West Bank Conjures Up Complex Emotions” (Phyllis Meras, Commentary, Sept. 14)
The following letter was sent to the West Tisbury selectmen. I write you now about the next town meeting’s question involving the Mill Pond.
I have lived on Martha’s Vineyard for 20 years and could not be more proud to call this Island home.
It’s a staple of local conventional wisdom that one of the reasons famous people love our Island is that we encounter them with a nonchalance that puts one in mind of an English butler escorting a carpet-installer to the rear wing.
The Mill Pond and its upstream cousins: Mill, Priester, Crocker, Fisher (also known as Woods), plus two or more smaller ponds, each with dams, are eco-gems strung together by a silver chain — the Mill Brook.
Three years ago in my sophomore history class, a young woman sat in the corner, deliberately placing herself outside the circle of activity in the room. I recall we were busy fund-raising for money to send books to a school in Mississippi, and later in the year for disaster relief in Haiti.