In this week’s “Consider This” column, Harvard resident Bill Ashe suggests that the Joint Boards of Selectmen enlist the help of professionals in sorting out what to do with Vicksburg Square. What an idea—ask professionals! If preservation of a historic area is the goal, it seems that the Boston Society of Architects, the Freedom’s Way Heritage Association, and the Massachusetts Historical Commission would be the obvious places to turn for help and for input not tainted by political agendas. This group could collectively develop a vision for Vicksburg Square that would inspire the right developer to sign on to tackling the project, and would not bring with it the “baggage” of the current players—a longstanding mistrust of MassDevelopment and suspicions among the towns about each other’s motives. We agree with Ashe; it seems like a common-sense solution.