Mr. and Mrs. Morris, thank you for your detailed defense of mvff's activities and, above all, for using your actual names in writing your letter (it adds credibility). I would guess that most people agree that mvff provides a valued service to the island and hope that it finds a campus in an appropriately zoned location. In the meantime, it provides this service from other locations. But the West Tisbury residents voted to protect their historical, agricultural and residential center with zoning limits that we abide by and value, much as Vineyard Haven, Chilmark, Edgartown and other island residents do in their communities. We do offer other buildings in other areas of West Tisbury (including Ag Hall, the Grange, the West Tisbury library, Polly Hill, among other facilities) to the entire island for many of the activities that overlap with mvff's, including screening films, holding community discussions, focusing on agricultural initiatives and providing many kinds of programming for children. If you feel that "we owe mvff a chance at a year round home," find one in an appropriately zoned location, perhaps in Chilmark or elsewhere, or let it continue to use existing facilities throughout the island. On second thought, it might be difficult for mvff to try to build in Chilmark, since Mr. Bena has appeared before the Chilmark planning board to advocate for a building moratorium that would block the 6000 feet barnlike structure that he proposes to build to show films in WT. Moreover, why don't "we owe" the residents of West Tisbury the right to live in their residential and agricultural community in accordance with the zoning rules that they voted for? When you say "give Thomas Bena and his board an opportunity to be heard," your letter ignores the following: Mvff and its board deliberately chose to buy the Walsh property before notifying the Walsh neighbors and abutters and before bringing its plans before the West Tisbury community. That approach smacks of intimidation and not community involvement or respect. If the plans for developing the site are early and open-ended, as Mr. Bena writes in his letter to the editor, why couldn't they have waited to buy property until their plans were formulated? Then real and meaningful community discussion could be had when it really matters (before the fact), and the transaction would not be felt by many in the community as a hostile takeover. If Mr. Bena favors community involvement and deserves our goodwill, why is he using a dubious legal loophole to build in a location against zoning regulations that would otherwise apply? Why would that strategy engender trust in the West Tisbury community? Why would we believe Mr. Bena when he says he values community input if he wants to enviserate town regulations in our historic district? By the way, I respectfully submit that if that legal strategy works, and it will be tested in litigation in this case, there is nothing to prevent its being used in every town on the island, including in Chilmark, Vineyard Haven and Edgartown, to circumvent zoning protections that most people value in the towns in which they choose to live.