To the Editor:

Every Enterprise holds so much of interest. I’d like to make several comments on the Feb. 16 issue.

First, on your editorial page and the gentleman and his signs in the Voorheesville park. More power to him — and to you for bringing his activism message to your readers. At 89, I couldn’t stand out in that weather…

Second, a point of local history told to me by former village and town historian Arthur Gregg: Cobblestone buildings in Guilderland include the buildings at our local cemeteries (meant to hold coffins in winter when the weather was too cold and the ground too hard for interment). These are all the work of special Italian masons brought to this country specifically to build the Erie Canal. When that employment ended, those workmen who choose to stay in this country got work doing these cobblestone buildings.

Third, I noted your Back In Time column had an obituary for a Harmon Slingerland. As a girl growing up in New Scotland (grade school), two of my best friends were his grandsons, Bill and Harry Taylor; their mother was a Slingerland. I am still in touch with Bill, now a Watertown resident. (I remember, her name as Anne)

Finally, I was so interested in reading that Kerry Dineen will become Altamont’s mayor. Her grandparents were very close friends of my husband and me. Then my husband as Republican Party chairman (in those days Republicans were the good guys — at least locally) persuaded her grandfather, Carl to run for town supervisor. His terms were high points of good government and development. I am sure Kerry will do a conscientious job for the village.

Carol Dubrin

Fort Pierce, Florida