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GEOGRAPHY LESSON
I enjoyed reading the article about Peter Schumann, founder and artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater [“Living Art,” June 18]. The writer made an error when referring to Silesia as a town. Silesia is a region of Poland.
Hampshire’s economy over the years. New Hampshire Republicans understand that their prosperity blossoms when pro-business Republicans are in office in Concord, and progressive high-tax, high-regulation, high-mandate majorities rule in Montpelier. John McClaughry
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Katherine Bielawa Stamper
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INFORMATIVE PIECE
Very nice article [“Living Art,” June 18]. I have read a lot about Bread and Puppet over the years but actually learned something new reading your piece. Good portrayal of Schumann, too. Warren Schultz
NEW YORK, N.Y.
NOT NEW HAMPSHIRE!
[Re “Tim Newcomb,” June 11]: Your graphically talented but substantively challenged cartoonist Tim Newcomb offered up a cartoon of anguished Republican elephants, purporting to explain that their biggest base of support was located in … New Hampshire! Having lived within sight of New Hampshire for 50 years, please allow me to explain to your Left Coast readership that New Hampshire Republicans are a strong base of support — not for Vermont’s Republicans but for Vermont’s Democrats. That’s because Democratic policies in Vermont have done wonders for New
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24/7 LAKE THREAT
[Re “Oil and Water: Trains Hauling More Crude Along Lake Champlain,” June 18]: Sure, there is a debacle-in-waiting every time crude oil is railroaded near Lake Champlain. But of far greater danger — 24 hours a day, seven days a week — is the ongoing destruction of the natural landscape of the lake’s watershed. Every time a woodlot — much less a whole forest — is leveled for development and more impervious surface is created, the lake suffers more pollution. No wonder algae blooms are a near-constant threat to water quality and fish and wildlife. Alan C. Gregory
WILLISTON
‘BOMB TRAIN’ SOLUTION
The wicked truth is the natural gas liquids — the explosive part — can be removed from Bakken crude before it gets shipped [“Oil and Water: Trains Hauling More Crude Along Lake Champlain,” June 18]. This is standard practice at Texas’ Eagle Ford shale formation, due to pipeline pressure limitations. You need a stabilizer