I thank the town of West Tisbury for the opportunity to hear about the different options related to the future of the Mill Pond. I was troubled by the insistence of the Mill Pond committee on dredging the pond, in particular the implication that natural sediments (referred to as black gold) be positioned as a commodity.

I ask, when has any Reality Show ever been about reality? They are nothing more than exploitation, degradation of the human condition, false acting, and most of all, money!

Regarding “Always at the Helm, Joe Cressy’s Legacy Unites May 27, 2011.”

I could never take Joe Cressy’s place, but

I can offer what I am. Not the hail fellow

well met Joe sounded from his memorial

article but an honest environmentalist and

dreamer who believes in what

is right and will love Chappaquidick

like I love America.

I’d like to send this and

move there, but I never will.

I visited several times in the

I am sending you a picture of my 88th birthday. I just love the Gazette and I am usually one and a half hour late eating my dinner when I get it. I like John Alley’s West Tisbury news as he always has something in it during the 1940s.

As the Oak Bluffs beat reporter for the Gazette in 1982 and 1983, I found myself in many meetings prolonged by the persistent inquiries of Linda Marinelli. She usually criticized me for missing the point of her diatribes and she thought I was lazy for failing to investigate the East Chop Beach Club land mess, a story she assured me would win a Pulitzer Prize.

So new tick-borne virus, no tests available. So 50 deer per square mile, 100 square miles, that’s 5,000 deer on the Vineyard. The way I hear it, no deer equals no ticks. As I have said before, 5,000 — given certain changes in regulations — 75 per cent of that sounds like a doable number, very doable, over the course of several years.

Bloodthirsty? Not as thirsty as the ticks.