To the Editor:
Good Morning, Mattapoisett, May 11 is our Annual Spring Town Meeting. There is no place on earth I’d rather be than in the ORR auditorium on the 11th of May. Will “U” please join me? It will be rich, rewarding, enjoyable and well informed. At the same you may stand and speak on any issues if you wish to do so.
This year, the Agricultural Commission has article #35 in the warrant – as follows the “Right to Farm Bylaw.” “Mattapoisett is Special” to me because “Yours truly” was born in St. Luke’s hospital, New Bedford on March 15,1929 and 86 years later, I live in the same place, on the Same Farm. Moving forward into the 30s when the bottom fell out of the stock market in the big apple – it triggered the worst depression America has ever seen!
In 1935, the population in Mattapoisett was 1,682. In the spring of 2001, it was 6,291 with a summer ballpark figure of 6,500 happy people (according to the town clerk’s office). As of January 2015, the population is 6,317. From the twenties to the middle forties there were about 15 working farms in Mattapoisett. Life was not a bowl of cherries; the horses outnumbered the automobiles in the 20s and 30s.
Now everyone and everybody want to live in the country as long as they don’t – SEE – HEAR – or SMELL anything. The country, farming, and open space go together – like love and marriage!
Article #35 speaks for itself. Please pick up your copy of the warrant to study the article for yourself. I would like to thank the generation I grew up in for making “Mattapoisett Special.” Let’s help the Agricultural Commission to keep it that way.
With all of the violence and protesting in Baltimore and the rest of our country, you can thank your lucky stars that you live in this quiet, rural, peaceful New England town of Mattapoisett.
P.S. It is your duty and honor to attend town meeting on May 11.
Thank you in advance,
George Randall, Mattapoisett
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