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Question: What can make a tent full of women happy without any men in sight? (Actually there were a few men here and there, including man-about-town Tom Dresser). Answer: Tea sandwiches, fashion and wild hats.
The second annual Featherstone Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show event got rolling last Saturday afternoon.
The tea partiers (as distinct from tea baggers) brought their own fashion with them in the form of insane hats. I thought I was over the top with a hat loaned to me by Paula at Craftworks; a cloche formed from paper bag material coated with polyurethane and topped with feathers and flowers. The hat kept falling over my face. In any event, I was completely outdone by women in hats with mega blossoms topped by teapots and other outlandish adornments. Next year I’m going to wear a force-bloomed blood-orange azalea bush held together by chain-link fencing.
I sat at the table with Olive Tomlinson, the sparkling Oak Bluffs doyenne. To my left was Bethany Seidman, owner of Curves, resplendent in a black and white polka-dot dress with red shoes, a Tea with Mussolini red hat such as Cher might have worn in that movie, and a red handbag. On my right was Janet Morris, washashore and retired educator, now packaging cruise ship tours, so you definitely want to know her. I met the glowing Mary Bryant, author of children’s books, Betty Brady, one of Olive’s favorite Curves’ buddies, and Sue Fuller, gardener extraordinaire and green-thumb-brigade gal at the Polly Hill Arboretum.
My ex-husband and friend Marty took me out to Lola’s for brunch on Mother’s Day, even though I had to remind him the date was at hand. What is it about me and men that doesn’t quite mix properly? Charlie called and we had our usual Mother’s Day banter. Me: Thank you so much for letting me be your mom. Charlie: No problem. Me: And when you get to the Island in August, I’ll take you out for a belated Mother’s Day brunch. Charlie: Sounds good. Me: No expense spared. Charlie: Cool.
Belated happy mother’s day to all the moms of Oak Bluffs: I’ll take you all out to brunch when Charlie arrives.
More news from Featherstone Center for the Arts: On Tuesday, May 24, all day Sharky’s Cantina in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown locations will be donating 15 per cent of all food sales to the above-mentioned arts center. Very nice.
Donate your used books to the Oak Bluffs Library; the first drop-off day will be on Saturday, May 28 from noon to 3 p.m. No textbooks, please, and no tax or government books, old software, damaged or moldy books, encyclopedias (remember those?), telephone books, or Reader’s Digest condensed books.
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