To the editor:

Open Letter to Little Compton Agricultural Conservancy Trust and Town Council …

Our understanding is that Carolyn’s Sakonnet Vineyard hopes to use the tranquil character of Little Compton by monetizing it with multiple concerts and weddings at the vineyard. Ironically, this will in the process destroy that Little Compton character by which they wish to profit.

Further, they wish to do this on land owned by the LCACT under the guise of concerts and weddings being nothing more than support of the required agricultural use of the land. If the meaning of a concert and a wedding can be construed to be supporting of the growing of grapes and production of wines, then language ceases to have much meaning.

If that use is allowed to go forward, how is it different than if we raise bees, harvest honey and then have a carnival on our property that is justified by the selling of some of our honey next to the merry-go-round?

Clearly, the vineyard has nearly unlimited money and legal support behind them. Please do not let our town be bullied by their threats, money and lawyers.

Thomas James and Adelaide Sherer Vander Salm

Little Compton.