Chilmark is wearing a wet brown blanket as I write. The colorful leaves that decorated our roadsides for a week or more have all fallen at once as if by special signal and they have also turned to brown! No one wants to rake wet leaves so that chore will wait a day or two for the sunshine. Maybe a wind will come along and blow yours away. . .but not likely!

Chilmark salutes all veterans this week and we cherish our veterans and their sacrifices every day. Thank you for your service from all of us.

I apologize. . .the front of the present town hall is clapboard, not shingle. The recent addition is shingle. The work is almost done and does make the building look grand.

The special town meeting was quick and efficient this Monday past when all warrant articles were approved without discussion and we were home for the football game. The selectmen joined the planning board in voicing a tribute to Dan Greenbaum, who recently resigned his planning board seat due to illness. We send him good wishes and many thanks for the great work he has done for many of our town boards. Dan has been part of Chilmark for all of his years, first as a lifelong seasonal resident and then as a respected retiree.

Warren Doty and Alex Karalekas will host a potluck and musical evening on Nov. 28 at the community center. The event is free to all and will be from 5 to 10 p.m.

There will be a joint meeting of the boards of selectmen of Chilmark and Aquinnah on Dec. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the selectmen’s meeting room in Chilmark town hall. The public is welcome to attend.

Town hall welcomes Jessica Holtham (Mrs. Michael) as the new administrative assistant for the housing committee.

Peter and Sally Cook are busy settling into their South Road home, having recently sold their Cambridge home, and have found time for some brief travels. They traveled to Peter’s family home in Woolwich, Maine, then to Wiscasset to the childhood home of Sally’s father, Henry Scott. In late September they traveled to Kansas City to attend a dinner at Pembroke Hill School to honor Sally’s mother, Peggy Scott, who taught English and drama at the school for 21 years. Back at South Road in October they enjoyed a visit from their daughter, Annie Cook, who came from Alexandria, Va. While here, the artist found time to paint some scenes of the fall colors in Chilmark. Now the Scott family will gather in Chilmark for the Thanksgiving week. Jon and Marie Scott will come from Castleton, Vt. for the festivities.

The Chilmark Library is exhibiting a show in the meeting room featuring the up-Island wampum bead makers. There will be a sale to go along with the displays in the meeting room from 3 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 14. The show is very interesting and depicts many styles and methods of beading.

The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society will have a recital at the West Tisbury library with Delores Stevens and Scott Woolweaver on Nov. 25 at 4 p.m. Admission is free to all.

Boston Magazine has begun a project called Best Bostonians and is looking for the 400 greatest Bostonians throughout history. Chilmark’s Barbara Lee is among the trailblazing women on the list of choices. You can vote for her or others by going to the magazine’s website, bostonmagazine.com.

Welcome back to June Manning, Aquinnah columnist for this paper. Now we will get the scoop again from that part of MV!

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