Chilmark is looking lush and green with roadsides trimmed and daisies and buttercups blooming everywhere. Where are all those grey branches of yesterday? Our sunsets are striking in color and they occur later now allowing for supper crowds to make it to the beach in time for Mother Nature’s show. Wedding tents are appearing in freshly mown fields and the roads are being shared with bikers and runners. June is definitely a summer month.

On Saturday, the Chilmark Church will hold their annual Children’s Fair at the church. All are welcome and there are many games, contests, pony rides and face painting for children...and did I mention a bounce house?

The Home Port Restaurant will open on Saturday this week and the Beetlebung Café is now open daily.

We send many happy birthday wishes to Rena Fischer, who turned 101 on Tuesday this week. She has many fans in Chilmark and across the Island who all send her cheers and best wishes.

We send condolences to Bill Edison and his family on the death of his wife, Lydia, who died this past weekend. The couple had recently arrived from Elk, Calif. for their annual vacation at their Menemsha home that was built by Lydia’s father in 1928. Bill is the retired commissioner of the Chilmark softball games and they both have many friends here who will miss Lydia. She was 88.

Congratulations to all who have graduated this week from Vineyard schools. Happy summer and good luck with your new life!

Marjorie Phillips is back at her Larsen Lane summer home, coming from Lexington, Va. She looks forward to being joined by visiting family members throughout the summer months.

Don and Susan Luce of Downingtown, Pa. are at the Luce House on Chowder Kettle Lane for a brief visit. They enjoyed a Viking Boat cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest this winter and look forward to cruising the coast of Norway before returning to Menemsha for their annual fall vacation.

Barbara Leiner of Boston and Aquinnah will be displaying her oil paintings at the Chilmark library from June 25 through July 15. There will be a reception for the artist on June 25 from 3 to 5 p.m. This is the first library show for Barbara, who has a studio in Boston. She tells us she does abstract paintings drawn from landscapes and figural images.

Bella Thorpe and her horse, Reina, competed at the Mystic Valley Hunt Club in Mystic, Conn. last weekend. She competed at the second level and won a second place ribbon and a third place ribbon. She also qualified for the next championship contest to be held this fall. Cheers from us all.

Chilmark Chocolates will continue to be open from Thursday to Sunday and their hours are 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Chilmark library will present Jane Dreeban discussing her book, The Urge to Create: Vineyard Portraits. She will be joined by Annie Howell, Peggy Schwier and others from Chilmark who are featured in the book. The program is on Wednesday, June 22 at 5 p.m. It is sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark library and free to all.

The Chilmark Church will no longer have a pizza night but now will be selling the popular lobster rolls at the church on Tuesdays, beginning June 21 at 4:30 p.m.

Howard and Rosalind Feinstein will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 24, first at home in Ithaca and then in Chilmark for the summer. They began visiting the Vineyard in 1955, right after their engagement, when they bought bikes and noted that there was a new youth hostel on the Vineyard where they met Lillian Manter and discovered the joys of shopping at Alley’s. They continued to come to the Island, first renting and then enjoying their own cottage bought in 1984 on a hillside off Middle Road with water views. Their children, Jonathan, Eric, and Roger, now come with their families and currently their grandchildren are the same age as they were when they found Martha’s Vineyard. Congratulations and cheers from us all for a summer long celebration of the happy occasion.

Andrew and Ellen Jacknain of Washington D.C. are at their Larsen Lane home for the season.

Bill and Betsy Ramsey of Whalen have been weekending at their Larsen Lane home this month.

The West Tisbury Library Foundation will present Geoffrey Cowan: A conversation with Tweed Roosevelt on June 28 at the West Tisbury Library at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and there is no charge. Mr. Cowan will speak about his newly-published book, Let The People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary.

And I must add condolences from us all to those who suffer in the wake of the latest madness in Orlando.

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