PUTNEY — RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
I came to the computer to thank The Commons and Joyce Marcel for this excellent, well-researched, rounded, honest look at the events at the Brattleboro Food Co-op of a couple years ago. Thanks, Joyce - yours is still the best stuff written in this area.
And thanks, The Commons. This is stuff I've felt and heard, some of. Healing will, I suppose, be long and hard. I miss my arrogant friend, Richard Gagnon. Guess I, too, felt he “took one for the team.” But the team has now changed.
The hippie “co-op” has become part of a sort of high-rise with a steel and glass off-angle front. Very chic. But it is about the people.