Archive: Around Town

Dan,

As you know I'm a quilter.  Recently, a friend of mine who lives in Lansing and is also a quilter said to me, "What's wrong with the people in Lansing? They don' like sewers?"   So I started thinking about that.

You know when the "no sewer" signs first went up around town, I thought it was important that people were exercising their right to free speech.  But since the question of sewers (the disposal of waste kind) in town has been removed from consideration by the Town Board and the signs are still up, I've begun to take them all more personally. Recently as I was driving to a Tompkins County Quilters Guild meeting, I counted 15 signs banning sewers--two of them in the mile it takes to get from my house to Rt. 34B.


Where would we be without sewers (the stitching kind?).  Betsy Ross was a sewer, so we wouldn't have a flag.  We wouldn't have clothes to wear--and many of us should wear clothes even if we don't.  Most of us have parents who sewed on our buttons or put a hem in when our clothes were too long.  My own grandfather was a tailor.  I still have the jacket he made for me when I was fourteen.  My quilts were hanging in the Town Hall this past summer and I received many compliments on them.  So what am I to make of this whole issue?  I suggest that lest the question of sewers in Lansing become a campaign issue we take down the signs and thank the sewers among us for all the work and good they do for us--after all sewers make up the fabric of our lives.


The English Language keeps me in stitches.

Respectfully  submitted,

Marcy E. Rosenkrantz

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