Woodman, Spare that Tree

To the Editor:

The Pest House was my first home, which may or may not explain a lot.

Immediately after I was born-(not too recently),-my mother was found to have scarlet fever. We were both taken from Saint John’s to detention on the north side.

I never got the fever, and I’ve never gotten over that brick building, it seems. I remember my stay-again, it seems. (As to how many different kinds of “quarantine” there are in this world, I just had to live more than forty days and learn.) I walk past it now.

Current news and your editorial of February 28 have brought back my very early career as a Pestilent. I would raise the money and buy the place if I wanted to live there; but it is too late to go home again in that manner.

A growing nonprofit organization-arts, humanitarian, you know who you are,-should have a tour and do some thinking. Residential parkside location with view!

-Rodney Nelson
Fargo

Editor’s Note: March 17 is the last day to bid on the original Fargo City Detention Hospital, located at 57 11th Ave N. Bidding forms and information are available at Cass County Courthouse, 211 9th St S, (701) 241-5720.