JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark will hold a special town meeting on August 6 at 8 p.m. at the community center. The subject to be discussed and voted on is the replacement of docks in the Menemsha harbor. We hope all interested voters will turn out and hear what is proposed and vote their choices.
We have been enjoying very lovely summer weather for the past weeks and we are learning not to comment on the heat quite so many times a day.
Please note that there will be a memorial service for the late Phyllis Conway at the Chilmark Community Church tomorrow, Saturday, at 11 a.m. The new pipe organ will be played in her honor. Phyllis had many friends in Chilmark and is missed by all.
The Wednesday program at the Chilmark library will be Presidential Predictions —It’s in the Stars, by Chilmark’s own astrologer Arlan Wise. She will read the charts of Obama, Romney and the USA. The program will begin at 5 p.m. and is open to all, free of charge.
The Thursday afternoon program at the library will be Steven Raichlen’s book talk: Island Apart. It is a work of fiction with our Island as the setting. Mr. Raichlen has written many successful books where cooking is the main theme. This is his first work of fiction. The talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the public is invited at no charge.
Congratulations to Conrad and Jane Neumann of Durham and Chilmark who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last week. Celebrations will begin when their children gather in Chilmark in August. Cheers from us all!
Bob and Jane Gilman have sent us a bird alert. They watched a pair of peacocks wander around their North Road home this week and are wondering if they had wandered off from an owner who might be missing them. (Editor’s note: Edo Potter, at 508-627-4667, on Chappy is missing her recently acquired peahen and peacock from up-state New York, Bonnie and Clyde.)
John and Elizabeth Churchill and their children, Freddy, Bobby and Lucy, all of Menlo Park, Ca., have been enjoying a two-week visit at the Peaked Hill home of Elizabeth’s sister, Catha, and her husband, Dave Carlson. The Carlsons joined them this week.
The family of Sandra Fales Hillman will hold a memorial gathering at the family farm on Middle Road on Saturday, July 21, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The Reverend Cathlin Baker will lead prayers at 5 p.m. Sandra’s many Chilmark friends miss her lively presence among them.
Samantha Jason visited her dad, Dennis, at his North Road home last week. She is employed in Boston by the William Ravis Real Estate firm in the residential group.
Dick and Jean Denholtz are in town for a two-week visit with old friends. They were residents for a number of years, and their many Chilmark friends are happy to see them again.
Usually, at this time of year I welcome Joe and Lois Muzio of Rockport back to Chilmark, but this year they have rented in West Tisbury, so I can only alert their many friends and family members that they are on the Island.
Betty Kogen of Westport, Conn., made a brief visit to her South Road home.
Kathy Hayes of Brooklyn is at Quitsa for her annual vacation and she is joined by her daughter, Nancy Rommelmann, of Portland, Ore., and her granddaugher, Tafva Sampson of Brooklyn.
John Wightman will have his annual show of photographs and more at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark on July 14 through 20. The artist’s reception will be on July 14 from 5 to 8 p.m. This year his photos will feature many items of local interest and new ways to make his photos contemporary works of art. They are always of interest and his work has a large following.
Don’t miss June Manning at her Aquinnah Library talk on June 19 when she will speak about the Wampanoag contribution to daily Vineyard life. The talk is from 5 to 6:15 p.m. at the Old Aquinnah Town Hall.
The fishing vessel Richard and Arnold was in Menemsha this week. Capt. Dutra was here to visit old fishing friends and to tell them about the book by his wife, J.J. Dutra. The book, Nautical Twilight, the Story of a Cape Cod Fishing Family, tells the stories of the Provincetown fishing fleet and the demise of the fishing industry as they knew and loved it. It is a bittersweet account of the lives of the men and women who loved to fish and have suffered the loss of their livelihood. I look forward to reading the book and I was told you could find copies at the Copperworks on Basin Road.
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