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How Informative Will the TR Museum Information Sessions Be?
To the Editor:
The TRA Sessions
As announced in the Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot, the TRA will be holding 3 informational sessions at the Christ Church Parish Hall in Oyster Bay for a question and answer forum about the proposed TR museum. Mr. Bruns, president of the TRA, as well as fundraiser, will be answering the questions.
Under normal circumstances, this could be a very productive forum. However, there are stringent rules to be followed. The questions have to be submitted beforehand in writing; thus permitting Mr. Bruns to pick and choose the questions that he wants to answer while having his pre-determined responses ready for the group.
The article also states that there might be time for questions from the audience but emphasizes that the meeting will end PROMPTLY at 8:30 p. m. I tend to think that there will be little or no time for questions taken from the group unless they are from the members of the TRA or Merchant’s Association who are all in favor of the museum at this location.
This is so blatantly slanted and unfair that I wonder how uninformed Mr. Bruns thinks the residents of this area are.
I know that Mr. Bruns “build’s museums” as he has stated at a recent town meeting. This is what he does for a living. Will he have to deal with the consequences that this over-sized project will bring to this area?
In response to a recent letter to the editor in one of the local papers, I would like to end by saying that I think that Theodore Roosevelt was probably one of the best presidents that this great country of ours has ever had. He is on Mount Rushmore for a reason. I just feel that Fireman’s Field or any place in his small, beloved, hamlet of Oyster Bay, other than Sagamore Hill, would be ill-equipped to handle the consequences that a memorial of this magnitude would bring.
What comes to mind is the fact that Washington D.C., which was rightly considered for this honor, has only one small memorial to him. It is a statue on an island in the Potomac. Two of my questions will be: Does he not deserve better? Does he not deserve better in Washington D.C. with other presidential memorials?
Thank you very much,
Joan Baron Drury, local resident and admirer of President Theodore Roosevelt
