JANE N. SLATER
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This gloomy June is almost over. Chilmark has been in and out of sun and mostly under damp fog and rain all month. Gardens must be thriving and the roadsides are so lush and overgrown that they seem to be trying to encompass the passersby . . . let’s hope for more summer-like weather for July.
If you happen to read this early on Friday, you can still meet Representative Tim Madden at the County Building at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport at 3 p.m. He will meet with the Dukes County Fishermen’s Association to discuss the problems and concerns of fishermen of Martha’s Vineyard.
Congratulations to Norman Freed as he celebrated a big day on June 25. Diana will entertain Norman and a gathering of his family and friends this weekend. Cheers from us all!
John and Janet Burns of Baldwinville, Mass., and Dick and Debbie Strawbridge of Altamont, N.Y., were in town this month for their annual two-week vacation. They are enjoying their 14th year of Chilmark vacations! The Burns’ daughter, Wendy, her husband, Jay Sylvia and their daughter Kayla joined them.
Welcome back to Tom Langman who arrived this week for his Chilmark summer from his home in Reston, Va.
The Chilmark Church will welcome Susan E. Thomas as the guest preacher on Sunday, June 28, at 9 a.m. Lia Kahler will provide the music.
Phil and Gail Derrick checked in with Chilmark friends this week. They are presently in Westford where they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at a family cookout. They look forward to visiting their Island friends in late summer. Cheers from us all!
The Chilmark library will host a quest launching party on Saturday, June 27, from noon to 5 p.m. A quest is a treasure hunt designed to introduce people to a place with its history, stories and interesting facts. All ages can play.
Nancy Aronie will conduct a free Writing from the Heart workshop on Wednesday, July 1, at 5:30 p.m.
The Chilmark Community Center is getting ready to open on July 1. The programs will be in the mail the last week of June. Steve Hutchinson, who has been running the tennis program for 29 years, is retiring. Eddie Stahl will run the tennis program with Alex Rabe.
The Chilmark Church continues to sell lobster rolls on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 7 p.m. at the church. The musical group, Vineyard Sound, will perform at the church every Tuesday at 8 p.m. The church reminds us that their twice-a-week flea market will begin on July 1 and repeat every Wednesday and Saturday through August at the Jenkinson meadow on North Road.
The Chilmark home of the late Nan Simon Werner, Salt Meadows, will be the site of the wedding of her granddaughter, Rebecca Lesser to Joshua Kayman on Saturday, June 28. Rebecca was born on the Vineyard and now lives and works in San Diego. She is the daughter of Michael and Deborah Lesser of Berkeley and Menemsha. Harvey and Susan Kayman, parents of the groom, will come from California to join the family and friends at the service at Salt Meadows and the reception at the Captain Flanders House.
Donald and Susan Luce of Downingtown, Penn., are at their Chilmark home on Chowder Kettle Lane for a June vacation. They will celebrate the 90th birthday of Donald’s mother, Jean Luce, who has been coming to the home annually since 1940. Their son, Donald and his wife, Susan, are here with Rick and Karil, two nephews from California and cousins, Bradford and Susan Andrews.
Marty and Jennifer Schellhas and their daughter, Melonie and her guest are at the Neumann house on South Road until the end of the month. Jennifer is the daughter of Conrad and Jane Neumann of Larsen Lane. Her daughter, Christina, arrived earlier in the month and is working at the Galley.
Andrew and Anna Thomas and their children, Jacob and Mina Kate, are visiting the Neumanns on Larsen Lane for a few days while Andrew attends an Underwater Robotics competition at the Mass Maritime Academy. High school classes across the country competed for these finals being held this weekend. Andrew teaches a class at the First Flight High School in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and we wish his class success as they compete for first place.
This column seems like an appropriate place to explain Chilmark’s preservation of town history. Chilmark has no historic districts nor is it a historic district in itself. Other towns on the Island have such districts with restrictions on any changes that take place within the districts. Chilmark has a seven-member Historical Commission charged with protecting and preserving the history of Chilmark. I urge any interested to attend the monthly meetings at town hall and to review the town’s bylaws that cover historical preservation. All can be seen online at the Chilmark town Web site.
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