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Thanks to Chelsea Edgar for her excellent piece on Huntington Open Women’s Land [“HOWLing at the Moon,” November 20]. With her trademark insight, humor and deep research, she gave a substantive and respectful overview of how things are evolving for HOWL in particular, and women’s spaces in general, as ideas about gender and identity change. I feel like the heart of the story was a quote from current caretaker Meg Mass, who says, “It’s not about undoing [the founding generation’s] work but building upon it.” Maybe Edgar should do a whole book about this generational phenomenon. She could title it, Who Moved My Chaga Mushroom? Alison Bechdel
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[Re “HOWLing at the Moon,” November 20]: I really feel for the “Sisters of Sappho” here in Vermont and nationwide who, after all the hard work and gains that started in the 1960s to finally carve out a place that writer Chelsea Edgar calls “penis-free,” see it all evaporate in a cloud of political correctness by “women” with penises who decided they were not men. I feel especially bad for the young women whose mothers and grandmothers fought to get Title IX recognition, funding and equity for biowomen in school programs and sports. To see all that dissipate on account of bio-men who just waltz in and take record after record, canceling out all the hard work and pain just because they can. I’m with the older lesbians. Screw the PC culture. Why allow this insanity for 0.001 percent of the population and ignore the 55 percent? I think this is a line most Americans will not allow to be crossed, no matter the “howls” from the trans community. Steve Merrill NORTH TROY
IN DEFENSE OF DE CHAMPLAIN
[Re “Big Colonizer on Campus,” November 6]: I would strongly urge the reading of David Hackett Fischer’s book Champlain’s Dream, an incredibly wellresearched historical account of the man and settling of New France. Coming out of the religious wars in France and appalled at what he observed