Subject: Response to your note of October 8, 2002
Date:  Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:10:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "George Salzman" <isiahgeorgesalzman@yahoo.com>
To: "Boysen Hodgson and Jessamyn Smyth" <boysenhodgson@aol.com>

Friday, October 25, 2002

Dear Jessamyn and Boysen,

      This responds to your note, Jessamyn, of October 8, 2002.

      I have given a great deal of thought to what you wrote and what you 
didn't write, both on Oct 8, 2002 and during the preceeding year. As I 
stated on October 5, 2002, my preference is not to demand full immediate 
amortization of the mortgage. I propose a resolution which I hope will be 
acceptable to all of us.

      My idea is that we negotiate an arrangement that simultaneously (1) 
transfers the one-third ownership you hold back to me, (2) guarantees 
your long-term sole occupancy of the stone house as your private 
residence, with your financial responsibilities essentially unchanged from 
what they now are during the remaining 19 years the mortgage would 
have run, with full respect for your privacy and desire for quiet, and with 
provision for your continued private residency beyond the first 20 years, 
and (3) deeds my one-third ownership to the Grassroots Infrastructure 
Charitable Foundation.

      In formulating this proposal I have sought to both guarantee your 
legitimate need for a secure place to live and your wish to continue in 
your present physical circumstances, and to eliminate the possibility that, 
as owners, you would be in a position to prevent use of some of the 
farmland for additonal socially beneficial purposes.

      In order to negotiate a detailed arrangement satisfactory to us, to Eric 
Entemann, and to the Trustees, a useful first step would be for you to 
invite Eric and a few Trustees to meet with you at the farm at a mutually 
convenient time. You can arrange for a meeting by contacting either Eric
eentemann@hotmail.com or me. We both are in touch with each other and 
with all the Trustees.

Sincerely yours,
George Salzman