JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark is rushing through August with so much going on that we need to be three people to get to enjoy everything offered.
Please make note of one interesting event that I failed to tell you about before. There will be a photography exhibit at the library beginning tomorrow of the works of J.B. Riggs Parker. He took a series of photos of Donald LeMar Poole making lobster pots some 27 years ago. Donald was a Menemsha lobsterman known to many. Riggs has now printed and edited his series of pictures that document a craft of another era. Donald was 80 when the pictures were taken in the Menemsha shack that his grandson, Donald, now occupies. Mr. Parker also accompanied Capt. Poole on a lobstering trip on his boat, the Dorothy and Everett. The black and white photos will be of interest to many, both history buffs and camera fans. The artist’s reception will be at the library from 3 to 6 p.m. tomorrow. The pictures will be on display during library hours through Sept. 10.
We send condolences to the family and friends of writer Budd Schulberg who died last week on Long Island. His literary works are known worldwide and many Chilmarkers knew him as he vacationed in Menemsha each summer with his wife, Betsy Langman Schulberg, their children, and her family. His many accomplishments will keep him in our memories and we will miss his presence among us.
The friends of Middle Road will have their annual meeting on August 29 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Middle Road home of Roland and Susan Kluver. Discussion will include transportation on Middle Road and cell phone service. Please make note of the date; all residents of Middle Road are welcome to attend.
Dick and Mary Leeson of Abel’s Neck Road are enjoying a visit from their daughter, Amy, and her husband, Jeff DuBois of South Dartmouth. The visit included the celebration of Jillian Dubois’ first birthday. Cheers from us all.
Tom and Diane McHugh of Metunuck, R.I., were guests of the Leesons this week.
Bob and Bonnie George welcomed guests Michael and Joan Neugeborn of Jericho, L.I., for their first Chilmark visit. The Neugeborns came for the first anniversary celebration of the marriage of their son, Ian, to the George’s daughter, Emily. The couple lives in New York city.
Jackie Mendez-Diez enjoyed a visit with her daughter, Alexandra, who came from Brooklyn for her vacation. Her friend, Tom Shea, accompanied her.
We send best wishes to Sam Carroll, who is recovering at his Menemsha home from recent surgery. We hope he will be out and about soon.
Dr. Ed Rothschild and his wife, Kathy Lonergan, are here from City Island for their annual Chilmark vacation. Their daughters Sarah and Anna are with them.
It’s been an unusually busy summer for Sally and Hans Solmssen of Abel’s Hill. At the end of June they cohosted 60 members of the Garden Club of America and their spouses for four days. The group came from 26 states and Washington, D.C. Sally and Angel Morris of West Chop and their committee:,Ginny Butters and Bonnie Conway, also of West Chop, Louise Marx of Chappaquiddick, Margy Richardson of East Chop and Pete Peters of Edgartown spent two and a half years preparing for the group that stayed at bed and breakfasts in Edgartown and visited 19 public and private gardens, including Polly Hill Arboretum and Mytoi. During the rainiest June in 100 years, fair weather prevailed with two amazing rainbows on the final evening of events.
Shortly thereafter, the Solmssens’ three children and families arrived for three weeks: from San Francisco, son Topher Solmssen and Courtney Cooney, Max, 7, Pippa, 5, and Maisie, 4; from New York city, daughter Kate and David Stephan and two-year-old old Alex; and from Santa Monica, son Andrew and Bonnie Solmssen and four-year-old twins Jack and Ridley.
The third week was the biggest celebration! Sally’s mother, Rosemary Todd of Hollis, N.H., who visits the Solmssens each summer, turned 100 and wanted to celebrate on the Vineyard. All her offspring, numbering 47 (with 19 great-grandchildren, ages three months to 17), came from across the country for the festivities. Daughter Rosemary Clough, former summer resident and frequent Vineyard visitor, also from Hollis and son Tony and his wife, Gail Todd of Winnetka, Ill., with their extended families provided a great reunion for all the cousins. Again, the weather cooperated, and Rosemary senior was properly feted with dinners, picnics and many choruses of Happy Birthday throughout the week.
The Moreschi family, Bob, Linda, Claire and Lily, were guests this week of Chuck and Marjorie Phillips on Larsen Lane. Bob is a professor of economics and finance at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. where Chuck is a professor emeritus of economics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
Arlene Bodge will conduct the services at the Chilmark Community Church on Sunday, August 19, at 9 a.m.
Jill Iscol, Monina von Opel and the Yard are coproducing an hour of poetry at the Yard featuring poet Sassy Ross on August 18 at 5:30 p.m. She is a poet of note and is presently on the staff of the University of Utah. The one-hour program will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. Please call the Yard for details and tickets at 508-645-9662. There will be another weekend of opera at the Yard repeating the opera program, Dido and Aeneas, that was so well received last weekend.
The Brickner Poetry contest at the Chilmark library has concluded and the judges, John Maloney, Donald Nitchie and Sarah Lamstein have named the winners. The junior high school first prize winner is Aliza Astrow and the second place winner is Sophie Parker. The high school winners are Ava Geyer and Alex Lengyel, in that order. The prizes will be awarded and the winning poetry read at the library at 5:30 p.m. on August 17. Congratulations to the winners!
Eli and Frimi Sagan of Stonewall Road are having a wonderful August with their grandchildren here from many places. Isabel comes from Santa Fe; Max and Sophie from Sudbury; Leah and Sonia from Montpelier, Vt., and Ezra and Toby, who were here from Columbia, Ohio and have departed on a trip to Yellowstone National Park.
David Damroth is having a show of his photography at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard at Beetlebung Corner from August 14 through August 20. The artist’s reception will be at the bank from 4 to 6 p.m. on August 14.
Pre-historian Duncan Caldwell will discuss Paleolithic Feminine Imagery in a lecture and slide program at the Chilmark library on Wednesday, August 19, at 5:30 p.m. It promises to be a fascinating visit to earlier times and Duncan’s research of many years will interest many. The public is invited free of charge. Call the library for more details at 508-645-3360.
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