The Slip Away Farm stand is now open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. They have a wide variety of fresh food and flowers. There may even be some furniture for sale from Marshall Farm Wood-Works. See the websites for both for more information.

The Chappaquiddick Food Truck at Gerry Jeffers’s is now open daily from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The food truck is part of the Blackbird Café next to Murdick’s Fudge in town. Lots of goodies right here on Chappy!

Don’t forget that on the Fourth of July, the Chappy Ferry does not carry vehicles during the parade and fireworks; the parade route blocks vehicle access to and from the ferry. Starting at 4:15 p.m., the ferry stops carrying vehicles. Foot passengers are carried during the parade.

The parade leaves the school grounds at 5 p.m. When the tail end of the procession passes the top of Daggett street, the folks from Chappy pour down the street to line up for the ferry. The ferry carries 48 passengers per trip and there have been as many as 500 parade watchers. It may take up to an hour to get them all across and clear Daggett street so that vehicles can safely pass. You should figure that will be roughly 6:30 p.m.

The fireworks begin sometime between 9 and 9:15 p.m. The ferry stops carrying cars a half hour before that(at 8:45 p.m.) because Dock street becomes clogged with fireworks watchers. Foot passengers will continue to be carried except when the fireworks display is actually happening.

After the fireworks finale, the folks that went over to Chappy to watch will line up in the parking lot to get back to town. Dock street will still be clogged with people. Therefore, the ferry concentrates on just foot passengers for at least until 10:15 p.m. when vehicles will again be carried.

If the festivities are postponed because of inclement weather, all of that will happen on the following day.

The next meeting of the Chappaquiddick Ferry steering committee is scheduled for Friday, July 7 at 3 p.m. Find the Zoom link on the town website. It might not be posted until a couple of days prior to the meeting time.