No matter how you feel about the towers rising across from the Northside neighborhood, the letters only discredit the real concerns being raised.

In the letters, the Greenbridge "developers" admitted twisting the words of longtime residents filmed in a promotional video tape. They apologized for moving hundreds of rich white people into luxury condos across from a historically black neighborhood and announced they were ceasing condo sales until they could, in essence, find a way to make it all up to everyone.

Of course the real Greenbridge developers didn't send the letters at all. And, as you can read on the next page, they stand by their high-rise.

Also on the next page is a signed letter from the steering committee of United with the Northside Community Now. The group, which says it had nothing to do with the weekend letters, challenges Greenbridge and the town to include existing neigborhors in the town's economic development and protect them against gentrification.

We don't know how much of this letter's demands are already being addressed. But at least we know who is making them.

That's a starting point for discussion, something last weekend's letter writers denied themselves with their guerilla graffiti.

Roses to town boosters Ernie Dollar and Traci Davenport for relentlessly reminding us what a neat place this is.

Dollar, the head of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, and Davenport, the head of the Chapel Hill Museum, are teaming up for a Civil War "living history experience" this Saturday at the Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St.

If history is any guide, it may just be a mix of gravitas and groovy, as anyone who remembers Dollar's "Three in the Attic" film festival will attest. (The society showed the '60s sex romp on the Horace Williams lawn last summer to help save the slowly rotting Edward Kidder Graham house, where scenes were filmed.)

This weekend's event is more family friendly.

And if you get done early, head over to the Museum, where Davenport and company have worked mightily to preserve and protect some of that history so many fear may be slipping away.

In fact, Dollar and Davenport (can't you see their names on a vaudeville bill?), see heritage tourism as an economic development straregy, something the town should build on instead of trot out a couple of times a year as an excuse to put on fancy costumes.

Another great idea from two who've got plenty of them.

Raspberries to young people who think they or their peers are invincible.

Just ask Andrew Madlon, whose right arm was badly burned when he got picked up and dumped in a bonfire last week during the NCCA celebration on Franklin Street.

"I thought maybe it was just the first layer of skin," Madlon told WTVD in an interview. "I was really surprised by how much damage you could do that quickly."

Police warned students again this year of the dangers of bonfires, which even when minor can cause inuries, and complications for years to come.

Madlon was one of eight students treated at the Jaycee Burn Center.

For the facts on bonfire risk go to www.youtube.com/user/UNCChapelHill and watch a video with Dr. Bruce Cairns, director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center.

"The injuries associated with these bonfires are tragic not only because they can be so devastating," he says, "but also because they are so completely preventable."