<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Don, for noticing. And, thanks for spelling the surname correctly. It's much-appriciated. <div><br></div><div>Yorke<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Don Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlynch@garretroomstudios.com">dlynch@garretroomstudios.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yorke,<br>
<br>
I have to admit that you write the dumbest responses to town talk
and your absolutely awful music lineup at the arts fest proves you
lack any sense of intelligence.<br>
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<br>
<div dir="ltr">My friend Gerald,
<div><br>
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<div>Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman and American folk hero,
was also a land speculator. By the time he was 65, Boone was
washed up in real estate and complained that he had too many
neighbors in Kentucky. He moved to eastern Missouri in 1800
where he lived another 20 years. (Actually, after the Budweiser
sale to a Belgium firm a few years ago, I hear that St. Louis is
pretty-much a ghost town -- no rush hour! The brew is still made
there but all of the decision-makers, marketing team are gone.)
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>Point is, nothing lasts forever. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>And, to call the Cafritz clan "speculators" is a stretch.
They have owned the property since the mid-1940s. (During the
second World War, the place was a neighborhood of
government-built shanties, housing those broken by the Great
Depression. Anyway do we really think the Cafritz family
should be forced to keep their property green so we'd all have
nice drive? If that's what you're looking for, consider
gassing up for a drive down the B-W Parkway, the G-W Parkway,
or the stunning Blue Ridge Parkway. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Andy why shouldn't the avenues to the nation's capital be
lined with thriving commercial enterprises? Don't we want to
be vibrant with a strong working/middle class? Why not let the
businesses of America risk their dough to make money and
provide a better economy? </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>As far as asking the government buying property and turning
it into parkland -- NUTS! It's already done. Skyline Drive,
Greenbelt State Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce and on
and on. (Haven't we spent enough on that huge U.S. Capitol
Building five miles away where NOTHING seems to get done!) </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Remember New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley's advice
in an 1865 editorial: "go West, young man." </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Actually that is paraphrased. The entire quote is even more
on target today than ever before:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">
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<td style="padding:4px 10px" valign="top"><i>"Washington
is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the
food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals
are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and
grow up with the country."</i></td>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Best,</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Jeffrey </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:50 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerald@geraldking.com" target="_blank">gerald@geraldking.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">Riverdale’s a nice place to live.
Parks, river, historic mansion, trains<br>
and quiet residential neighborhoods. It’s also a suburb of
a bureaucratic<br>
metropolis or the Capital of the United States of America.<br>
Along its northern boundaries is the oldest federal
highway in the<br>
country-Route One. Ounce a major artery leading into the
Capital, it long<br>
ago gave in to commercial interests and offers little of
the bucolic<br>
ambiance of the Maryland countryside.<br>
I’ve always enjoyed the small stretch of natural untamed
Cafritz property<br>
along Baltimore Boulevard. It’s a small reprieve from the
steadily ever<br>
creeping urbanization of every little patch of our little
community. But<br>
progress always trumps the poet and the dreamer. Mr.
Warneck wrote, “why<br>
not have the state/county purchase the Cafritz<br>
Property and set it aside as a park.” Of course the state
is broke and<br>
Cafritz must show its stockholders a profit on its long
term investment. A<br>
$3 million donation to Montgomery College to help create
the Morris &<br>
Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center in downtown Silver
Spring trumpets<br>
the Foundation’s image as a philanthropist. All the blue
bloods in<br>
Montgomery County must love their cultural benefactor. The
rubes in<br>
Riverdale Park should have no delusions about this land
speculator. Profit<br>
trumps philanthropy when it comes to PG County and the
Cafritz Foundation<br>
like Douglas Properties is first and foremost interested
in maximizing<br>
profits. So often we simple folk confuse big money
institution with<br>
wanting to improve our lives and enrich our community by
investment. I’m<br>
not saying Cafritz or Douglas Jamal are intentionally
trying to rape our<br>
community or turn us into a ghetto. It’s just that their
philanthropy has<br>
strings and Riverdale doesn’t provide political advantage
to makers and<br>
shakers.<br>
I will miss the majestic trees with their greenery and
fresh air making<br>
capacities. Perhaps the food grown in greener pastures and
sold in my<br>
neighborhood will make the loss of a last vestige of
country ambiance<br>
along old Route One more palatable.<br>
Gerald King<br>
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