Chilmark is looking forward to a fun week with the Meet the Fleet day on Thursday, August 6. The Fishermen’s Preservation Trust is sponsoring and planning this event. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. and go on until 7 p.m. There will be a tent on the bulkhead and fishermen will be there to show the public their fishing boats and their skills with shellfish, opening and cleaning and preparing fish. There will also be speakers. The fishing vessel Roann of Mystic Seaport will be here and will offer tours aboard. Other fishing boats including the Little Lady and the Richard & Arnold will be alongside the dock for your inspection. It is suggested that if you plan to come to Menemsha that night, you use the free bus from the town parking area on Tabor House Road. The bus will run every 20 minutes back and forth to the harbor.

Mike Drezner and Liz Gude enjoyed entertaining Liz’s daughter Sarah Commerford with her husband Liam and son Ian and daughter Wendy, of Holliston. Her daughter Anna was here with husband Matthew Madan, daughter Eve was here from Corinth, Vt. and son Clay Scoble of Somerville was here with his wife Laura and three-year-old son, Finley. A good time was had by all!

Patti Lincoln of Madison, Conn. and Chilmark was happy to have her daughter Mary-Ashley and her husband Kyle Cohagan visiting with Connor and Brady. Grandparents Michel and Dean Cohagan were also here, all from Greenville, S.C. The Crotta family will come from Northford, Conn. next week to vacation at the Pease’s Point Way home.

An important date to remember is the annual selectmen’s meeting with all interested residents. Seasonal homeowners, renters, visitors and all are invited to attend and to ask questions about the projects going on in town. The meeting will be on Tuesday, August 4 at the community center at 7:30.

Steve and Susan McGhee enjoyed a visit from Steve’s son, Paul, his wife Barbara and their 10-year-old daughter, Alicia. They live in New York city.

We send best wishes for a speedy recovery to Barbara Rivers, who is home after some surgery at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

We send condolences to all who knew and loved Bob Tilton of Vineyard Haven, who died earlier this week, and that is a lot of us. He will be missed by many.

The boardwalk is down in Menemsha. Now beach visitors can exit their cars and walk forward onto the walkway to the beach instead of back into the traffic in the parking area. We hope that it is used and appreciated for its safety.

Please make note of the dates for the annual Chilmark Historical Commission’s program. It begins on Wednesday, August 19 with a 5 p.m. talk at the library by Adam Moore of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, who will bring us up to date on the restoration of the Mayhew-Mitchell-Hancock house in Quansoo. He will have pictures and details. On Thursday morning we are invited to gather at the town hall parking lot at 9: 30 a.m. and carpool to Quansoo where Adam will lead a tour of the house. Refreshments will be offered. All are welcome and there is no charge for the event.

The Chilmark Volunteer Firemen are in need of new volunteers. They have many projects besides attendance to whatever fires might occur. Please contact Chief David Norton, or any other volunteer fireman, for details.

The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival begins on Friday with a panel and reception at the Chilmark Community Center and continues Saturday at the Harbor View Hotel and is back in Chilmark on Sunday. Please go to www.mvbookfestival.com for all the details. There will be something of interest for all the family.

The Chilmark library program for Wednesday, August 5 at 5 p.m. will be a talk by Dean Bragonier as he speaks about his Round-the-Vineyard Swim benefitting NoticeAbility, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about dyslexia.

And, I have managed a few sightings this week, not of celebrities but of folks visiting for a few minutes in a busy summer. One person I spotted was Joan Poole Nash enjoying a day or two with her dad, Everett Poole, at Quitsa.

Steve McGhee has found a website that he finds interesting and shares with us. It is marinetraffic.com, lots of pictures and information about boat activity in our nearby waters. Enjoy.

More to enjoy, the Chilmark Church continues to offer lobster rolls and more on Tuesday evenings from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The flea market continues on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at the Jenkinson field on North Road and the annual Chilmark Road Race is coming up on Saturday, August 8. Please note there is only online registration this year, www.coolrunning.com.

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