The outside beach at the Chappy end of Norton Point has washed out due to severe erosion and OSV travel is impassible along that section of ocean beach.

The past few days since tropical storm Dorian swept through the Island have been absolutely spectacular.

The first Chappy Community Center potluck dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 18 from 6 to 8 p.m.

A large crowd gathered at the Chappy community center over the weekend to celebrate the combined sixty-nine years of service of four Chappy ferry captains.

Be on guard for lots of bicycle traffic on Chappy roads as well as Dock street Friday morning.

Lucy Leopold and Collins Heavener, year-round residents of Chappaquiddick, were married at Slip Away Farm, their home, on Saturday evening.

The Chappy Book Club will meet Wednesday August 28 at 10:30 a.m. at the CCC to discuss The Girl in the Spider’s Web. This novel is the fourth in the Lisbeth Salander series, which was begun by Swedish author Steig Larrson and continued by David Lagercrantz after Larsson’s death. According to Wikipedia, in the only interview he ever did about the series, Larsson stated that he based the character of Lisbeth Salander on what he imagined Pippi Longstocking might have been like as an adult. Apparently, he figured that she would be a magnet for trouble.

I opened my greenhouse door the other morning and discovered seven bobwhite quail scurrying around and under our seeding tables.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank added to its holdings on Chappaquiddick this week with the purchase of 18.2 acres abutting the Three Ponds Reservation.

PETER WELLS

508-627-1577

(peterchappyferry@gmail.com)
I have always liked fractions. Mathematical fractions that is. I appreciate the way that they can help to develop comparisons or to fine tune a view point.

Here’s a good example: on July 15, we were one quarter of the way through summer. On July 21, we were one third of the way through summer. A span of only six days.