March 4, 2013
Dear Mickey,
Totally agree about Old Mill. I’ve had some wonderful meals and parties there – we used to fit all of CHP in the small dining room at Christmas and it was so lovely. We weren’t old ones then tho’ God knows we are getting there now! I even tried brains there one night and they were beyond compare. All of it is low key and that isn’t a style some folks find attractive now, but I hope the Berkshires doesn’t lose it.
Was also interested in the tree issues. My dad was a landscape architect and he was always trying to find ways to use tree plantings to slow down traffic – he designed many public parks in the south and his hero was Frederick Law Olmstead. I suspect that Great Barrington is having to solve too many problems with these trees and thus the higglety-pigglety nature of choices. As everyone who has ever had the misfortune to work on construction of anything knows, the costs keep going up and up and up. No solutions from this quarter but I wish you all good luck with it. My observation has always been that Chip E. knows the ins and outs of finance better than most of us and his advice is worth giving a listen to. Now I live in Maine where there isn’t enough money to put in a tea cup most of the time but we are always working for the tourists’ dollar. Love to you all in Great Barrington.
Linda Small
(Editor’s Note: Linda changed the lives of so many of us in South County when she helped to create the Children’s Health Program, providing affordable healthcare for young people in our communities.)