Edgartown Selectmen 
Town Hall 
Edgartown, MA 02539 
Dear Selectmen, 
I am writing to support the letters from Norma and Geoffrey Kontje of November 14th 
and an earlier letter from Sam Adibi listing reasons for opposing a bike path on Chappy. 
Although a seasonal resident, our family has a demonstrated long-term interest in Chappy 
affairs. I have painted and drawn the Chappy landscape for 30 years. We have owned 
property for ten years; before that we rented property for 10 years before buying. My 
husband and his siblings first began visiting his aunt and uncle (the Richard Conovers) 
when he was 10 years old, over 40 years ago. 
I am deeply concerned that the landscape I love will be dearly compromised by a bike 
path. Chappaquiddick’s rural charm will be inevitably altered if roads are widened for a 
bike path. So much of the Vineyard has succumbed to the look of the suburbs as 
neighborhoods are built in one wooded section after another. I hoped that at least on the 
small island of Chappaquiddick it would be possible to hold this process at bay. But 
sadly, this may not be the case. 
What is done cannot easily be undone. Instead of more asphalt, I would like to see 
asphalt removed. That would surely slow down drivers. 
Gail Rodney