In the photograph accompanying Lynne Irons garden column on July 3 there was mention made that this wall is an example of a “lace wall” because the openings between adjacent glacial boulders were not carefully in-filled by the wall-builder. These holes were not left deliberately to allow free passage of the prevailing wind (whatever you may have been told).

Lace walls and photographs are the subject of several poems by Chilmark’s native poet, A. Conrad Neumann in his book, Up-Island Poems.

Robert Schmalz,

State College, Pa.