Sing along, everyone
I am Uriah J. Fields, the person mentioned by name in Kathryn Bertoni’s letter to the C-VILLE Weekly [“’Baritone’ off base,” Mailbag, July 6]. In the letter, she pointed out that in the article “Busted baritone” [Ask Ace, June 22] the journalist wrote disparagingly of and indicted the nearly 90 vendors doing business at the Charlottesville City Market as though they disapproved of me singing at the City Market, and did en masse account for me having been escorted by the police off the premises of the City Market. She indicated that these vendors, perhaps with a few exceptions, didn’t mind me singing, and encouraged me with hearty “Amens!” Bertoni is so correct. I experienced the vendors as being appreciative to me for my sharing and they eagerly let me know that by their various goodwill responses.
I feel that the Ask Ace journalist had the best of intentions and a desire to present the true story about what happened at City Market on May 29. I am equally convinced that this journalist, like myself, applauds the businesspeople during business at City Market and wishes for each of them a profitable summer.
I want to acknowledge that Bertoni’s point is well-taken and she rightly pointed out that most of the vendors were empathetic to my troubadour rendering at the City Market. Her complaining is definitely in order and I commend her for sending a powerful letter to the C-VILLE Weekly. Furthermore, the letter demonstrates just how important it is to have in the marketplace of information different views, even conflicting ones, as we seek to know a fuller truth, particularly about a specific matter. Again, thank you Kathryn.
Let me close by saying to Ask Ace, regarding his closing statement, “cream cheese vendors be damned,” and to Bertoni regarding her closing statement, “snobby, condescending, so-called journalists be damned,” that my desire for you both is not that you be damned but that you be blessed. And, I just know you will be blessed and be a blessing.
Uriah J. Fields
Charlottesville
Pressing politics
While I have never tried Al Weed’s wine, I can say from personal experience that he is in fact a “great guy” [“Red, red wine,” Ask Ace, July 13]. I can also say, given his experience as a leader in the Nelson County community and in our armed forces, that he will make a great representative for the 5th District.
While his opponent, Virgil Goode, is keeping himself busy with a bizarre amendment to make English the official language of the United States, Weed is concerned about more important issues, such as national security, unemployment, the environment… and the quality of public school lunches.
So if you think that Weed’s wine is not all that great, then let him do in Congress what he has been doing all along: working for the 5th District.
Dan Kachur
Charlottesville
CORRECTIONS
The URL for the Paramount Theater was incorrect in last week’s story, “Places, everyone.” The correct Web address is www.theparamount.net.
The photo of DJ Mike Brie in last week’s cover story was credited incorrectly. It was taken by Aaron Landsman.