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Letters

Greater Escapes

I was hoping for quirky new destinations when I spotted your cover line “10 Fabulous New England Getaways That Won’t Break the Bank” [“Quick, Escape,” April], but I was seriously disappointed to see the overcrowded and well-known towns of Ogunquit and North Conway on the list. And I can hardly call a visit to lackluster Manchester a vacation classic.
As a native New Hampshire resident who has also lived in Maine, I’d suggest Portsmouth over Manchester, York Beach over Ogunquit, and Holderness, located on Squam Lake, over North Conway any day
Karina Facciolo-Moore
Dover, N.H.

Breaking Faith

Did you mean to be as offensive as you came across in your article “The Holy Toast”? [Rhode Trip, April] I suppose that someone with your apparent lack of understanding of the significance of the fraction ritecan be excused. To write “The priests ceremoniously crumble [the consecrated host] during the communion process,” as if they were crumbling Saltines into chicken soup, would be something an offensive comic might say to ridicule a sacred Christian ceremony. And there are other equally offensive (deliberately?) flip quips.
Don’t you think your ignorance should have prompted you to take the trouble to see if your writing from this uninformed point of view might offend those of us who do understand what you clearly do not?
(Fr.) Mark Nowel, O.P., Ph.D.
Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Providence College

Extreme Photo

I am appalled that you would put such a picture on page forty-nine promoting the beauty of Block Island [“World of Extremes,” April]. We are all aware that such things happen in nature, but a picture of a smiling guy with his dog sniffing at a poor dead dolphin is completely out of context with what you are trying to portray in your article.
Joanne P. Synan
West Warwick

Chilling Mistake

I was horrified to read, on the Contents page of your April issue, that rhododendrons “unthaw.” Good grief! The word is “thaw,” meaning to unfreeze. And nobody caught this very basic error?
Martha Smith
Warwick