It doesn’t quite have it’s foot in the door but winter has managed to make it’s way to the front stoop.

At first they need us and then we need them — that is what happens when a pup joins a family.

Thanksgiving brings our summer friends, college kids and extended families to town by the bushel.

“Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.” – Alexander Pope

In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in World War I.

Periodically, I hope to include in the Chilmark column a guest appearance from the woman who kept us fed with all of the newsy tidbits she could get her hands on over the past, let’s just say, many years.

After months of air travel to far away places like New Zealand, Ireland, Madeira, France and Germany, Mike Broderick and Mary McConneloug wrapped up the final round of the 2017 Enduro World Series in Italy.

Another year is in the books for the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby.

The local apples, sweet cinnamon and tender crust came together in the kitchen of Beth Mayhew into an, oh so delicious, rustic pie that I was lucky enough to enjoy for breakfast a few days ago.

It’s not for a few weeks but please mark your calendar for the 40th Women’s Symposium to be held at the CCC on Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon.