The following commentary was forwarded by Dave Pistorese, bartender and waiter at Chowings and Cambells Tavern for nearly 20 years. Dave has an interesting bio with two combat tours in Vietnam, search and destroy squad leader airborne, Alaskan fishermen and ship captain, and presently operating a home contracting business in Williamsburg. Dave has just finished his first novel and is looking for a publisher.

"Cary,

I read your essays and thought them excellent. Unfortunately, present management has at best average intelligence and little interest in the long term. I suspect most of them are looking for new jobs higher up the corporate ladder. Also, what I saw of their management style was change for its own sake, followed by poor execution and little interest for attention to details. For example,according to managemnet the fences around the Capitol are coming down after only 24 months due to the cost of three employees to enforce the perimeter. That can mean that mgt. failed in their analysis of the cost effectiveness of the plan, or that the plan was a failure and they needed a reason other than that their plan failed. Wilburn, former President of Colonial Williamsburg,is not around any longer to have to live with his concept that parasites should be kept off the streets of Williamsburg. I think that long term damage created by present management will be here long after susan and john have moved on, as has their mentor, Bob (Wilburn), as he liked us to call him.