Elmira’s Collegiate Gem

Dear Will, 

I loved Homestand. Thanks so much for this offering to a baseball devotee ... a lifetime fan of the Phillies. 

I have just one bone to pick with you. In your incredibly bleak description of the city of Elmira, you failed to mention its one big gem, Elmira College. Both my mother and sister graduated from Elmira and later served on the college’s board of trustees for a number of years. I have been to the campus a number of times and found it to be quite charming, including the special Mark Twain building and other acknowledgements of his presence there. 

If you write another book about the Elmira Pioneers and the Batavia Muckdogs, I hope you will say something about Elmira College and its impact on the city of Elmira. 

Thank you very much.