JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark has not been forgotten by the national news. ABC News carried an article by Genevieve Shaw Brown on Feb. 18 entitled Vacations of the Presidents. The lead picture was of Menemsha harbor; the article suggested the Clintons and Obamas were mainly interested in Martha’s Vineyard for the beaches, golf games and ice cream. Maybe she hasn’t been here. And what about President Grant? Oh, well, it is February and columnists here and beyond are hard-pressed for real news!
Congratulations to Dan Askow and Shari Kozak Koplan of Wilmette, Ill., who were married on St. Valentine’s Day at a resort in the Turks and Caicos. Dan is Cathy Thompson’s brother and a member of the extended Kuh family of Chilmark. Cheers from us all!
Susan and Brigida Larsen are still training for their walk in May for the Avon Walk for Cancer in Boston. Susan is a survivor of breast cancer and has devoted part of her life these last three years to the march. We can help her raise money for research. Susan’s fund-raising page is avonwalk.org/goto/susan.larsen. If you prefer, you may write checks to Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and send them to Susan Larsen, 108 Hammett lane, Chilmark, MA 02535.
Congratulations to all who were involved in the successful production of the play Gossip, performed at the regional high school last week. Kate Poole Murray, director of theatre, wrote and directed the play. Two Chilmark students, Bradley Carroll and Thorpe Karabees, were actors in the play and Brigida Larsen, also of Chilmark, worked on the sound. The play will now be performed in Attleboro as part of a competition in the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild Festival. The first performance is March 3. We wish everyone much success!
The next free Friday night movie at the Chilmark library will be on March 2 at 7 p.m. The movie to be shown is The Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Free popcorn and cold drinks are offered.
Chris Fischer’s recent article about eating beef and game hearts sent me into another sudden recollection of my far past. After my college days, I had an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York city and a full-time job. My friends and buddies of that era were all the folkies that I knew in Chilmark in the summers. Not all of them had jobs, so on Sundays friends would come by for an endless pasta meal put together by myself and some other brave cooks. We soon found that we could buy beef hearts at the wholesale meat market downtown for almost no money and, Chris is right, cooked with some imagination, they tasted fine and kept many a banjo playing that winter!
The French conversation group continues to meet at the Chilmark library on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. They enjoy French cheeses, breads and Perrier and share the joy of conversing in French at all levels from beginner to fluent in skills. They will continue to meet on Wednesdays through March 28. All are welcome; there is no charge.
Town hall is receiving applications for the rental of the Tea Lane Farm. Those interested are asked to submit a farm plan. A number already have been received.
Please remember our presidential primary election is on March 6 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
Cheers to all of you who are off on school vacation to faraway places this coming week. I will just stay here and watch the flowers grow . . . literally, the spring flowers are more than just up, they are full of promise of an early bloom! However, March may roar!
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