Dear Editor:
Your article on the fire on Park Avenue last Wednesday could not come close to describing, for us, the loss of Model Hardware. We’ve known Ed, Herb and Peggy for 40 years. They were not only consultants in the arcane world of nuts, bolts (one or two or a box, it didn’t matter), washers, WD40, keys, broken windows, paint, rope, Christmas lights, fertilizer, toilet valves, punctured screens, grass seed, snow shovels – did we mention DW40 – outdoor thermometers, and – well, you get the picture – but also friends. We could walk to the store and not only get what we were after and the advice that went along with it, we could swap stories about family, the community, the vagaries of creative writing and reminisce about Lake George.
Now what? We’ve haven’t a clue. The alternatives are too depressing to contemplate. Our dilemma is minor to that of the Frankes, but we know they’ll land on their feet. We wish them God speed in what ever they do.
Sincerely,
James and Evelyn Dette