THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October 5, 1995 TAG: 9510050003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
When Nauticus opened, we took the kids and spent several hours and $28. We laughed the experience off and got what satisfaction we could form commiserating with friends who had also been ``sold.''
Now the city of Norfolk has agreed to spend $1 million annually for 20 years to bail out Nauticus, and it is time to stop laughing. Nauticus is not a major tourist attraction and is not likely to become one. The $20 billion bailout will be our good money thrown after someone else's bad.
We should cut our losses. Norfolk should be thinking of ways to distance itself from Nauticus, not ways of - as your Sept. 28 article put it - putting the museum ``more within the embrace'' of the city.
I am willing to contribute to any organization formed to prevent the use of tax money to bail out Nauticus.
NEAL HERRICK
Norfolk, Oct. 2, 1995 by CNB