Chilmark is backing into fall with beautiful summer days and still many visitors and fishermen. The retail and food businesses are closing as I write. Betsy and her crew will be at the Larsen’s Fish Market until close of day, Oct. 19, and that will do it for all but Stanley Larsen’s Menemsha Fish Market.
Chilmark is still enjoying daily sunshine with occasional rain at night — seems like a nice arrangement! We still have many fishermen and visitors to enjoy it all. Fall has been more like summer so far.
Chilmark is wet today as I write, the loud sound of rain falling on the roof is surprisingly very pleasant. I am sure the gardeners are rejoicing too.
Any outdoor activity these days can create a dust cloud. We have put our gardens to bed after finding the last of the veggies, but what will next year be like without some serious rains?
Chilmark has gone fishin’. . . the weather is good and the fish are running. Lots of fishermen line the jetties and small boats are out. The bonito are biting as well as the false albacore.
We must say goodbye to Ethel Sherman, a beloved member of our world who was a sage of her time, accomplishing more than many of us could manage in her 91 years.
Chilmark is a quieter place as I write on Wednesday morning. The road noises of summer are missing, garbage pick up, food deliveries, fish wholesale trucks . . . all missing.
Well, we had many activities to keep us busy and the usual annual all-Island events of August, Illumination Night, the fireworks and the Agricultural Fair. There is a special feeling to winning a ribbon at the fair.
Chilmark is surviving the usual August crush as always. It is about time someone tried to explain the sunset madness that seems to affect a large number of people on nice evenings at the shore.
