Make us impossible to be ignored. Frank Bennett surmised if federal lands are for sale, all the rich and powerful would snatch them up (“First dibs,” Letters to the Editor, June 29).

From childhood memories of a submarine sighting to reflections on locker rooms, Margaret Erhart explores the transformative power of these spaces.

The letter closes with Einstein’s admiration of Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated just four years earlier after leading India to its independence from British colonial rule.