To the editor:

I am baffled and boggled that the Warren Times Gazette would publish a letter that amounts to slander against a local organization that does not exist.  There is no "Warren Historical Society," though we do have close to ten nonprofits dedicated to the challenge of preserving Warren's history, material culture, architecture and open spaces.  None of these oversee the lobby of Tourister.  Only those owning property, such as the Massasoit Historical Association, have authority over the interiors of buildings, and at that only because those buildings belong to the organization.

In the coming weeks expect letters to the editor from me detailing the satanic pet slaughter taking place at the Warren Foundling Animal Sanctuary, the rat-poison-laced food being given to the homeless by the Bounteous Table Society for the Indigent, and the libelous claims being irresponsibly printed in letters to the editor of the Warren Northern Star and Constitutionalist.  Of course, none of these organizations exist, but I know that the editor of the Warren Times Gazette is untroubled by such details.  Note the last is a very real Warren newspaper that failed.

The danger in publishing a letter that has zero basis in fact is that it can influence the real views of a readership who may not be directly involved with any of the historical agencies in Warren.   Publishing that letter was irresponsible.  Let's say you did publish those letters to the editor that I plan to send over the coming weeks; even though it doesn't exist, the Warren Foundling Animal Sanctuary could negatively affect readers' views of the Warren Animal Shelter, which does exist.  I am not writing this on behalf of any historical organization in Warren, though I have served on the board of two for many years and have helped to facilitate conversation between all local historical groups.  Publishing such a letter is an insult to the dedicated volunteers who work to preserve the town all of us love, not to mention an offense against the hundreds of members of said organizations.

I suggest the Warren Times Gazette publish a front page article explaining what did happen to the floors in the lobby of Tourister.  You owe it to the hundreds of people dedicated to preserving the history of this town -- and to Ms. Truscott, who clearly has been given false and strange information.  My best to the dogs of Tourister.

Nick Heywood

Broad Street