Chilmark’s September is acting like August. There are still many visitors, lots of gatherings and plenty of cars on the road. Let’s hope we can all keep up with things for a while longer.
Chilmark continues to enjoy the mild temperatures and mostly sunny days of this extended fall season. It is hard to focus, as we must, on the upcoming holiday events and necessary travels included. How many times a day do you hear global warming in local conversations?
There are many dates for activities that you will want to make notes of on your calendars, so I will proceed with notes from my many e-mails.
Chilmark says goodbye to another August. It was an eventful one with earthquakes, a presidential visit, a hurricane and more. The town lost a few trees and a lot of visitors to Irene. Most of our visitors on short vacations left early, only, I fear, to return to worse conditions in Connecticut, New York and other New England locations than we suffered here.
Chilmark is experiencing some beautiful summer-like weather this week. A nice treat, but kind of eerie. In some sheltered corners of town fresh flowers are making a second appearance of the season.
Welcome home to Kristin Maloney, who traveled to Abiquiu, N.M., last week to visit with her mother, Sonia Hodson. Kristin’s sons, Owen and Kieran, both traveled west to join their family reunion briefly.
Chilmark survived nature’s most recent outburst last weekend. Falling trees accounted for power outages in Menemsha that lasted into Sunday morning. However, the Comcast service was the hardest to live without. That was out until early Monday morning, causing many of us to miss the Patriots game. In retrospect, we were saved the agony somewhat.
Chilmark welcomes the country’s first family for their third summer vacation in Chilmark. We hope they enjoy some happy times here and continue to find our town an enjoyable and peaceful place to visit.
Chilmark’s biggest thrill this week has to be the arrival and visit of the Stanley Cup to the Chilmark Community Center. It was the buzz for most of the day. Hooray to all those who got to see and touch!
The days of August have been humid and hot most of the time, with some spectacular lighting and thunder to complete the traditional August experience for New England, but in all, August is providing the vacations that most have anticipated all year.
