Dear Editor:

With extreme pleasure I read about “New Owners Renovating the Linekin Bay Resort,” (issue January 14, 2016.)

I personally applaud Scott Larson and Steve Malcolm for not only their efforts to save the resort but that they are aware of a one hundred year history which can not ever be replaced. Hooray!

In the meantime, as we all ride by Boothbay Center (which used to be a special building scape and now is like a “toothless smile,”) location and identity matter.

Now that we have allowed local historical buildings to be “tear downs” and “scrape offs” has any thought been given to what will replace the charm of Boothbay Center?

I care very much about that as do others. Local architecture needs to be saved, perhaps an architecture aesthetics committee is needed or even some historic preservation group should be formed?

We should all care about our heritage and what others come here for. Make your community a special place instead of “any” place. Enough of “Arizona” huge buildings, how about saving the “cape scape”?

Preservation is progress. I’m very concerned about our identity, what about you?

Richard E. Plunkett

Architectural Historian

Boothbay