Thank you very much for your e-mail.  Thank you for reading my Appellate Court memorandum.  I will forward an ungarbled text in a day or two.

I should point out that I have not been uniformly rejected by the Massachusetts courts. When I appealed the Historic District Commission's denial of the Certificate of Appropriateness, the Nantucket County judge was very sympathetic, flattered me by telling me he wished he was as smart as I, told me that 70% of cases from Nantucket demonstrated the Town's bad faith, and instructed the Town to issue the contested certificate. The Nantucket County Judge however did not enter a formal order, and the Town officers who so obviously fabricated evidence were never at risk of being punished. My loss in the contest with the plumbing board was a consequence the political power of that Board.  At the hearing there was a contingent of plumbers who made audible anti-semitic comments which I could not hear because of my deafness, but which Christopher Gordon reported to me. The Board's purpose in adulterating the hearing was probably to suppress not so much Mr. Gordons testimony as the anti-semitism of the audience.

Since an hypothetical appeal by yourself from a refusal of the Historic District Commission to acknowledge the plans which it had been forced to approve in 2004, would be heard by the Nantucket-Barnstable Court Judges, it seems quite likely, if that Court's 2004 disapproval of the Town has not changed, you would prevail, but unlikely that you would be awarded attorneys' fees.

I may forward to you some of my contemporary correspondence with the Strangfelds.  Please feel no obligation to read any of it, and please forgive me if I send you duplicates.  

Good night, and sleep well.