Letter to the editor: Kudos to nonprofits and art venues

Editor:

How great is it that Saratoga was chosen as one America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places?

The award was based on the number of resident artists, artist-related businesses and non-profits receiving funds for the arts and music.

Also on the top twelve list was Marfa, Texas, a similar town of 2000, with antelope and cattlemen. CBS’s 60 Minutes highlighted Marfa (www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144819n), and they interviewed a bemused cattle rancher, their happy mayor who called it a “freedom loving town. People are allowed to — just-ah — live and let live,” and several artists moved there...