JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark starts the new year in a melancholy way having to say goodbye to women who each leave many memories among the Chilmark population. We will all miss each of them as each made their unique contributions to Chilmark.
Barbara Flanders Seward who died this week grew up in Chilmark, raised her popular family here and for many years she and her former husband, Bill Seward, ran the Menemsha Market. She served as postmistress for a number of years in that store. It is interesting to note that the Menemsha Market is again in the hands of a Seward — her granddaughter, Elizabeth Seward Oliver. Barbara leaves many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was well known to seasonal and year-round residents and we all have happy memories of her. We will miss her.
Dorothy Allen Larsen Tripp died this week in Somerset. She was the wife of Donald Tripp of that town. Dorothy was born an Allen in Vineyard Haven and moved to Chilmark about the same time that her sister Roberta did, as they married Chilmark men, Bjarne Larsen and Jim Morgan. She enjoyed many years of Chilmark life, raising children and as a wife to a Menemsha fisherman. Bjarne died some years ago and Dottie moved from town but visited her many family members often. We will miss her visits. Her funeral was at Abel’s Hill Cemetery on Thursday.
Eleanor Pearlson of Tea Lane died Dec. 22. She came to Chilmark later in life and made many friends as she established her real estate business here. She was known as an intelligent and inquiring person who enjoyed the company of others. We are glad she had so many years and spent so many of them in Chilmark.
We send condolences to the families and friends of these three women who claimed Chilmark as their own and enriched life for many.
I don’t think I explained that Nan Doty’s workshop on Qigong for Vitality is being offered at the Chilmark Library. The sessions are at the library from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday in January. Participants are encouraged to attend all four sessions. Call the library at 508-645-3360 for details.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is offering a Family Film Feast happening tomorrow night, Jan. 8, at the Chilmark Community Center beginning at 5 p.m. The food will provided by Slow Food MV. Members get in free and prices for nonmembers are $10 for adults and $5 for children.
Bill and Lee Gamson are back at their Boston Hill home after a two-week trip to California to visit their son, Josh, and his family. They were joined by their daughter, Jenny, and her family. They enjoyed the grandchildren and then enjoyed a stay in a big house in the wine country of Sonoma. They also traveled to Lodi in time to see the sand hill cranes that winter on the mud flats in that area. Now they are happy to be watching the chickadees and cardinals at their Chilmark feeders. Bill and Lee didn’t say so, but I bet they noted the swearing in of the new California governor while they were there.
Tonight at the Chilmark Library, the classic film To Catch a Thief will be shown at 7 p.m. It is open to the public and sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. They will be offering a movie, free popcorn and drinks every Friday night in January, February and March! See you there!
The library is also offering chowder and a movie at noon Jan. 12 and 26. The movie on Jan. 12 is The House of Mirth based on a novel by Edith Wharton, starring among others, Dan Ackroyd.
I hope by the time you read this that Olive is home but at the time of writing. Olive, a black lab, is missing from her Chilmark home at Abel’s Hill. She was last in the Quansoo area but could be anywhere Islandwide by now. Please keep an eye and ear open and call either of the following numbers if you are lucky enough to spot her: 310-467-0071 or 310-525-0215.
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