Preoccupied
To the editor:
Although Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis has been gone from our midst for several decades, his shade must be dancing on Lewis’ burial ground. As the eminent satirist of small town “boosterism,” Lewis would have found nothing but joy in Lawrence, Kansas. Iraq? North Korea? Terrorism? They clearly pale into insignificance by comparison with 50 percent or 80 percent tax abatements to attract “new industry” or with the endless prattle about the South Lawrence Trafficway. Lawrence is lovely as it stands. Why are we so preoccupied with any and all “development”?
Grant K. Goodman,
Lawrence