1. Please do not read further, until you wish to consider my thoughts about
my Nantucket enterprise.

2. Unlike my parents, I have no interest in a trophy house. The house
which I have had in mind (for the past 47 years) is a shelter which
would enable family members to afford to spend (long periods of) time
on the Island. I would accept hypothetical rental income from strangers, 
but I believe such rental income to be too uncertain to become part of 
a budget. 

3. Only if Stanley Wheldon, when fully informed, will accept the financial 
and professional risks flowing from the Town's hostility to my project, and 
only if he is willing to demolish the plumbing and to try to re-install it 
at the risk of substantial financial loss and at the risk of losing his 
plumbing license, would I consider contracting with him. I don't know whether 
you have heard from him by now; if not, it is possible that he will not reply 
to you at all.

4. If Mr.Wheldon is unwilling, I would inform the Building Inspector that we 
are unable to locate a plumber, and ask his advice how we should proceed.
I doubt that he would give us helpful advice.

5. Next I would make the house habitable by cleaning it up, taking trash
to the dump, storing some tools and supplies in the basement, possibly
storing other items in outside in a shed or under a weather-proof tarpaulin.

6. I would order and install the spiral stairs.

7. I would defer insulating and plastering until a later date.

8. I would order and install all inside doors and kitchen counters.

9. To create privacy, I would experiment with sheets of canvas on inside walls, 
   possibly stretched by springs, until plaster could be installed at a later 
   date. If the canvas proved impractical, I would create privacy by applying 
   1/2 inch plywood to at least one side of interior walls, using screws easily
   accessible and removable.

10. I would experiment with sanding the existing subflooring and applying
    polyurethane. If this treatment did not make the floors comfortable and
    free of splinters, I would consider sheets of linoleum not glued, but
    temporarily screwed to the subflooring. The linoleum might or might not
    prove a suitable underlayment for a hardwood floor installed at a later
    date. Hardwood flooring and floor tiles would not necessarily have to 
    await plastering of ceiling and walls. Hardwood flooring and tiled might
    be laid now.

11. I would then make the house available to family members for (vacation)
    use.

12. If after 5 or 10 years the Town had made no objection to our use of the
    house, occupancy would have been permitted by default ( as in so many
    houses on Nantucket) and I would install wall and second floor ceiling 
    insulation, plaster and wall tiles at time when they would no longer be 
    vulnerable to malicious orders for destruction by Town officials.