MOUNT DESERT ISLANDER • June 8, 2021
Chris’s Pond is a wonderful resource of Southwest Harbor. For countless families and their children, it has provided a calm window into nature, a place to seek quiet and retrospect and, when the weather was right, an ice skating pond. It is one of our local natural treasures. When the late John Letcher was alive, it was his hope that Chris’s Pond would endure as a local resource. After his passing, his family reached out to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust to help realize his dream. And the Trust, in turn, entered into a working relationship with our Conservation Committee. Unfortunately, a proposal to move forward with a grant application was killed by our Selectman’s Board at their May 11 meeting. A win-win opportunity was lost. I have been saddened by this turn of events. ~ Alfred M. Barron, Southwest Harbor