JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Summer has come to Chilmark ... and it promises to be a long, hot one. I guess we should heed the old advice to think carefully about what we wish for! We have lots of news this week, so let’s move on.
BRAD WOODGER
508-627-4216
It can be awfully hard to please Chappy folks sometimes. (What’s that saying? You can please some of the people sometime, but Chappy people none of the time. Something like that.) Despite the wonderful weather we’ve been graced with, some are bemoaning the fact that summer has been hastened by this boon. The blueberries are out, the climbing roses have bloomed, and the mosquitoes have blossomed. But will it all last until the important people arrive? Ah, there’s the rub.
Rick Herrick>
508-693-8065
I recently spent part of the afternoon with Fred Hancock at his home on Dudley avenue. You can’t be there long without noting the many paintings hanging on the walls. Most were painted by Fred. His specialty is watercolor, and his intriguing use of light jumps out at you.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
I love to sing my tropical heat wave song when the weather has been so hot, but I’m thinking it is a bit premature seeing that it is not even July. But we are not complaining as this has been the best spring and early summer we have had in a long time.
JOHN S. ALLEY
508-693-2950
Father’s Day was wonderful. Frank Ferro’s granddaughter, Ava, made him an apron. David Vigneault’s daughters, Ava and Willa, made him breakfast in bed. Steve Klebs went out to dinner with his sons, Hudson and Sawyer. Marjory Potts served up her famous peppercorn and mustard roast leg of lamb and for dessert rhubarb crisp at her birthday celebration.
Please Adopt Us
The roster of animals at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard remains the same as last week. Our lovely handsome black cats are Cyrus, Binx, Mantra, Zephrus, Dolly, Walter, Blackie and the two black kittens. We also have Miss Misty and Phoebe, the orange and white cat. Louise the guinea pig is ready and anxious to find a loving home with some gentle child.
Honestly there are times I wonder why I bother having a garden. I am going to do my best to come up with a few positive paragraphs but this week has been simply exasperating.
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
It’s not our fault! Those massive signs and lines at Lake and Circuit that everyone is shocked at? It turns out the whole design was cooked up by the state, and the state planners, don’t forget, have only one mandate: Make everything look the same, just as everything in America looks the same.
