I’m home today because I injured my back this weekend somehow. Anyway, as a followup to my earlier post, I went ahead and wrote to the Baltimore Sun.

I read your recent article about Enchanted Forest with great interest, but I was a little surprised by the incompleteness of the reporting in the article. The article seems to indicate that Martha Clark was the sole interested party in saving the Enchanted Forest pieces, and that her “quest” began in August 2004. On the contrary, your own newspaper, in November 2003, interviewed me about the newly-established Enchanted Forest Preservation Society, and published an article about our efforts. Although this recent article indicates Martha Clark mentioned “interested groups” trying to reopen the park, it seems to take her word as gospel - that such groups could never have been successful because of the parking issue. Perhaps Mrs. Clark has forgotten the hours of labor donated by members of the Enchanted Forest Preservation Society, both before and after the opening of Enchanted Forest pieces at Clark’s Elioak Farm. In particular, Monica [last name removed] has been a major driving force since late 2003, and her devotion to the park definitely deserves some recognition. As for myself, although I founded the EFPS in fall 2003, I have not been involved lately due to family issues, and presently I am primarily the webmaster for the enchanteforestmd.org website. But I was quite disappointed to see that the Sun’s own reporting from 2003 was discarded in favor of Martha Clark’s own version of events. I hope future stories about Enchanted Forest will dig a little deeper.

Not terribly organized but hopefully it gets my point across.