We are not ‘Deadwood’

Thursday, March 16, 2006

I read different stories with Benjamin Rosenberg, Security Development’s lawyer, comparing my beloved community to the HBO series ‘‘Deadwood.”

I do not subscribe to cable, so I researched the network’s Web site and found the program’s description. I discovered with surprise that the show’s premise centers on ‘‘an outlaw camp with power struggles that go on in a way of turning violent.”

I say we get with the real program. Residents and officials have extended an olive branch to each other in hopes of building bridges (in an analogous sense, of course). If you build it, they will come.

The framework Benjamin Rosenberg used to picture his fantasyland needs to stop production. How about by creating a horizon where a 20-acre parcel on Kali Drive no longer looks like a quasi-landfill?

Is this truly the site where new residents are to occupy? Build it by today’s standards and let them come. Plant the seeds from the aforesaid olive branch and have them sprout into a strong foundation for the future of Carroll County, Maryland, and our great nation as a whole.

Cheryle Franceschi, Eldersburg