To the editor:

Channeling Jonathan Swift and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, here’s a way to satisfy all those who are worried about train noise in the new train layover yard:

Why hasn’t someone thought of this before? If they have, I missed it.

The town of Brunswick in its official capacity seizes all the properties possibly affected by train noise by means of eminent domain, paying fair market value. The town then demolishes the houses and creates a serene and verdant woodlands, a veritable forest primeval, as a permanent noise buffer and public park.

There would be no more annoying noises of: children, car horns, doors slamming, weed wackers, leaf blowers, ride-on lawn mowers, stereos, domestic screaming matches and drunken beer parties.

Why, you could hear the birds chirping and the brooks gurgling through the murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded in moss, in garments green, indistinct in the twilight.

John H. Kilbourne,
Brunswick

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