Linda Bean Folkers, what a work of art.

Her grandfather and family have made millions of dollars selling camping equipment here in Maine, but now an L.L. Bean tent can’t be pitched anywhere on her 2,200 wooded acres in Weld.

“Please buy my tents but pitch them on anyone’s land but mine.” A real work of art.

More than 100 residents of the town of Weld voted to keep town-owned Morgan Road from being gated. She lost her bid to close the road, so she simply blocked it off with sand piles and a 6-foot deep ditch in total contempt for the good voting folks in the town of Weld.

What gives her the right to override a legal vote of the people’s will and to take matters into her own hands?

If Ms. Folkers had posted signs asking people to, “Please use my land responsibly,” “Please do not litter,” “Please keep Maine beautiful,” instead, she would find 99 percent of the people who used her land would respect it and clean up behind themselves, plus the other 1 percent who are just plain pigs.

Al Pelletier, Norway

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