Editor:
I note with some interest the campaign by one disgruntled individual to eliminate or reduce the skeletons displayed for Halloween in Ferndale, where I live. Based on a completely unscientific poll, we are told that a large majority agrees with the disgruntled — a whole eight or so folks.
Based on my objective observation of the huge line of people outside Buttercup Coffee and wandering up and down Main Street this weekend, many in costume, a great many people like the skeletons. If disgruntled is worried about the children, it would be a fine educational opportunity to point out several things to them — the skeletons are not real, but do demonstrate what our bones look like and what they’re for and that a plastic skeleton is nothing to be afraid of. What we should be afraid of is one person’s desire to tell the rest of us what’s right and that we’d all better get in line — or else. If you don’t like them, then avoid them. For the skeletons, their lack of body, our choice. I don’t have a skeleton displayed, but now I’m really thinking of getting one.
Bob Trosper, Ferndale
This article appears in Big Backyard Visitors.
