Further to Chris Leonard’s recent letter to this newspaper [“Pottersville,” Letters, January 5], in which he expresses his hope that Sag Harbor Village does not go the way of dystopian Pottersville in the film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” I add the following by way of allegory, with respect to the rather pharaonic project proposed for the five contiguous parcels of low-lying land behind Main Street, which some in this village refer to as the “Potter’s Field MegaPlex”:
The origin of the term “Potter’s field” is Biblical: Mathew 27:3-27:8. It refers to the place, ill-suited for agriculture and other development, where unknown, unclaimed and indigent souls were buried. It is believed this land was purchased with the 30 pieces of silver that Judas Iscariot received for his renunciation of Jesus.
Jus’ sayin’.
Steven Barr
Sag Harbor
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