With all due respect for the journalist who covered the selectmen and taxpayer meeting in Aquinnah, her intentions were right but her quote for my intervention was not correct.

We would like to take an opportunity to publicly thank the two Edgartown police officers who kindly procured a taxi for us last Saturday evening (the last night of our wonderful Vineyard vacation!) after an Adam Cab refused to take us home. The officers were helping to control the many cars and people congregating near the Atlantic Club and Dock street taxi stand.

In your August 10 issue, you ran a piece by David Handlin (Building a Better Big House Debate), the architect of the 12,000-plus-square-foot construction on Quitsa Pond in Chilmark which has created a storm and led to the formation of a Chilmark town committee to tighten review of big houses. Unfortunately, Mr. Handlin’s piece is a compilation of vapid and pointless clichés and red herrings that adds nothing to the debate and sidetracks the issue.

I will not comment upon architect David Handlin’s patronizing tone and cheap cliches as those have both been eloquently debunked in other letters. Instead, I simply wish to point out that Mr. Handlin’s direct financial interest in allowing larger, more expensive building renders his ad hominen opinions about the merits of such houses entirely suspect.

I had a good laugh reading David Handlin’s op-ed about his controversial trophy home on Quitsa Pond, my old home. Evidently we are now to compare those who build trophy homes on the Island to the Pilgrims, to Ben Franklin and George Washington, those who escaped political and religious persecution to found this great country.

David Handlin, have you no shame? How presumptuous, maybe delusional, of you to put yourself in the same shoes as some of the great masters of modern architecture like Eliot Noyes and Edward L. Barnes in order to insinuate that your work embodies a “freedom of architectural expression.”