JANE N. SLATER
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Chilmark is still prepping for the full rush of summer. Schools closed this week and now folks will be arriving for the full experience of a Chilmark summer. Are you ready?
Josh Aronie will offer suppers at his popular Menemsha Café on Wednesday nights as well as the already-begun Fridays and Saturdays. The Menemsha Galley goes to its 9 p.m. closing time now and all the food places are ready for you. The Tuesday night lobster rolls sold at the Chilmark Community Church are already making history. Don’t miss them. As someone might have said: I never met a Chilmark meal I didn’t like.
A plaque in memory and to honor the late selectman, Herbert Hancock, was dedicated on Monday morning at the town hall where it hangs on the wall. His wife, Billie Hancock of Florida, was in town for the occasion.
We send best wishes for a speedy return to gardening to Ozzie Fischer of Beetlebung Corner, who unfortunately fell in his garden last week. He has had surgery and is recuperating nicely at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, at last report. I know he is eager to get back to Chilmark. We all hope to see him here soon.
Thomas Warfield, who is now the head of the dance department of Rochester Institute of Technology, was in town this week renewing old friendships he made while spending 17 summers with the Yard in Chilmark. He began that association in 1987. He was the guest of Arlene Bodge, helping her to celebrate her birthday on June 19.
Tom and Diane Gregory of Bloomington, Ind., are guests this week of Ed Greenebaum and Joan Caulton in Menemsha. The two couples are neighbors back in Bloomington.
At the Eddy compound on South Road, Betty Eddy Lidgerwood celebrated her 91st birthday on June 22. The family planned a lobster roll party at Menemsha Beach at sunset but as I write on June 22 a heavy rain is falling, so the tradition of sunset picnics of the Eddy family will continue, no doubt, on another day! Happy birthday, Betty, from your million friends!
Let’s hope the Eddy family has better weather for the second birthday of Dominick Eddy Assis, whose celebration is planned for July 11. His parents are Alex Assis and Dinah Eddy Andrews.
Bobo Rantoul Turman of Berkeley, Calif., is at the family home on Middle Road with her extended family, including cousins from Canada and England for two weeks. Her brother, Neal, of Cambridge, and sister, Diana Harrison, of Middletown, R.I., will join the family for the reunion.
Donald and Susan Luce of Downingtown, Pa., are at their Chowder Kettle Lane home for an early vacation. Donald’s mother, Jean Luce of Marion, is with them. Donald and Susan report that on Sept. 4, 2010, their first grandson, Mason, was born to Thomas and Annie Luce of Phoenixville, Pa. Mason will make his first Vineyard visit in August to Chowder Kettle Lane.
We send congratulations to Roland and Gert Shea, who celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on June 28. Their son, Raymond, and his wife, Cami, came from Bow, N.H., for the big occasion. Gert tells us that they were married on Hammett Lane, North Road. Cheers from us all!
David and Jill Johnstone of Ashland are at the Gilmour cottage on Larsen Lane for their annual vacation. This year they are celebrating their 39th anniversary while here. Their daughter and son in law, Kim and Kevin Kelley of Atlanta, are with them. The Johnstones’ son, Jeremy, of Ashland, and their daughter, Heather, of Atlanta, will join them this week.
The Chilmark library is offering many programs for the whole family all summer. Andrew Mellen will talk about his new book, Unstuff Your Life, on Thursday, June 30, at 5 p.m. He is a professional organizer. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library and free to the public.
The Chilmark library program for June 29 at 5:30 p.m. is a talk by Nancy Slonim Aronie on her life as a writing coach. She is a well-known writer and teacher of writing in Chilmark. She always engages and never bores her audiences. The public is welcome at no charge.
The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association will kick off the statewide summer reading program for children on July 2. The title of this year’s program is One World, Many Stories, and on Saturday, July 2, at the New Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury at 11 a.m. they will offer a program entitled Juggling Around the World with Bill Ross. There is a $3 admission for children and adults, with face painting offered at 10 a.m. for an additional $1. All funds are to support the Martha’s Vineyard Library Association.
The Aquinnah Library will offer a program for children on June 25 at the Aquinnah town hall at 11 a.m. The Spindrift Marionettes will present Catkin, A Mystical Celtic Tale. Children and adults are invited free of charge.
Time to mark your calendar for July 12, when Geraldine Brooks will give an author’s talk at the old Aquinnah town hall from 5 to 6:15 p.m. She will discuss her new book, Caleb’s Crossing. This program is brought to you by the Aquinnah library and the public is welcome at no cost.
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