| Issue #31, October 27, 2006 |
Letters
DEER ME
Dear Dan,
This is a picture of a deer that was hurt very badly. I am writing this letter in hope that you will publish it. I was out in Montauk on September 29. I was driving on West Lake Drive when I spotted a deer lying by the side of the road. I pulled over to check out the situation. He was in front of a very nice ladies house. I was told he had been hit the day before. As I approached him, he tried to get up and run. But this was not to be. His back legs were mangled and had been broken so badly he could not possibly get up. The deer was alert and no doubt was in a lot of pain. The nice lady (I cannot remember her name) informed me she had called the police and also the humane society to come out and check out the situation. Needless to say, they never came. I watched as everyone who passed by, had no time to stop. Everyone passed by without caring enough to stop. I waited for what seemed like an eternity for the police to show up. I told them about the deer, and asked to please come and put him out of his misery. Finally a policeman did. The think that really bothers me about all of this was how everyone who passed him by, simply kept going. How cold all of you are who saw him and simply kept going. How could anyone hit this beautiful deer and keep on going without stopping to see if it’s badly hurt.
All I can say is “Take the time to have a heart”! Just remember that we get out of this life only as much as we put into it! It could be you who needs help someday and what if everyone passes you by?
Diane Sciubba
EXPRESSION OF THANKS
Dear Dan,
Please pardon my delay in writing to thank you personally for using Jackson Pollock’s “Composition with Pouring II” on the cover of the Sept. 8th issue. It gave a real boost to the last ten days of the exhibition – and it looked great!
I hope you were as pleased with it as I was. Your ongoing enthusiasm for the P-K House is sincerely appreciated.
Cheers.
Helen A. Harrison, Director
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
East Hampton
Via e-mail
Lines going out the door?–DR
UNDERGROUND RUMOR
Dear Dan,
Hello, could you please help clear up a friendly debate? Back in June or July you paper ran an article with a story about a subway system already existing in the Hamptons. Now I told everyone this incredible story and got laughed at endlessly. What was the real story or is it a real truth, and is there more info about the story.
Thanks.
Rob G.
Via e-mail
No subway yet. –DR
WALL SPACE
Dear Dan,
Firstly, I want to say how much I love your paper after all of these fun years reading it. I have spent every summer of my life out on Long Island (Quogue and Remsenburg) and always looked forward to perusing your wonderful issues.
I was out there this August and speaking to my childhood friend, Rebecca Frankfurt (I think you know her mother, Kay) and I was saying how I wanted to frame some of the old Hampton Classic covers to put in my new house that was just built out there. Is there a way to order them?
Thanking you in advance.
Heather Moller
Via e-mail
We’re working on this. – DR
A-MAZING
Dear Dan,
Thanks so much for awarding our maze “Pick Of The Week” in Dan’s Papers this past week.
The publicity is always greatly appreciated.
Hope to see you soon!
Harry and Barbara Ludlow
Fairview Farm at Mecox, LLC
Soon as we get out.–DR
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Dear Dan,
I can’t say I did notice too many typos or abused words over the last year. We’re not here in August, however, as we rent out our house. I don’t read your paper that one month, except of course for the issue on the Horse Show, for which we return.
As for who and whom, I did find and read aloud a couple of those misuses to my husband, and, although he does not read your paper, he responded by saying, “That doesn’t sound like Dan (he goes by the other things I read aloud to him.)”
Did you ever know John Warriner? He had a house on Beach Road in the Dunes in Amagansett. He’d begun WARRINER’S GRAMMAR AND COMP (as it was called). When I was a young editor at Harcourt, I was also one of John’s editors (and I rented a house coincidentally on Beach Road). John used to say that, when speaking – or even in a crunch when writing (not for a grade of course), if one is unsure about whether to use who or whom, go with who, which generally sounds better and is more often correct. There are also great glossaries of usage out there, not to mention the CHIGAGO MANUAL, which as you surely know can now be viewed for free.
As for spell checks, and God help us grammar checks, I tell my editors to think always like copy editors, i.e., always check another reliable source. Of course, we’re making 1,000 – page reference books so tend to be under a bit less pressure than your staff.
And finally, about owners’ being paranoid – I think that’s our norm, especially in publishing, and especially editors.
If I made many mistakes in this note, forgive me. It might be our last day to go to the beach. Hope to here from you once again. Will be here Monday but Yom Kippur is probably not the best day.
Happy New Year.
Lauren Fedorko
Via e-mail
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