September 7, 2008
Honfest crowds no fun in Hampden
There's no fun about Honfest ("Hon-estly, hon, it's just fun," June 13).
As a resident of Hampden for the past 25 years, I'm really sick and tired of being called a poor sport by Honfest organizer Denise Whiting when it comes to the Honfest (and, while we are at it, a "Scrooge" by the Miracle of 34th Streeters for eight weeks at Christmastime).
It is difficult to find a parking space in Hampden on a good day. But becoming a prisoner in your own home for an entire weekend during Honfest doesn't tend to put one in a good mood.
Yet any suggestion that the city might offer provisional parking at the Poly-Western high school complex and run shuttle buses to The Avenue is shot down by area merchants at community meetings, who are not interested in any "negative feedback" from the neighborhood.
Kitty Deimel
Baltimore
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