JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark sends condolences to the family and many friends of Lorna Tilton Flanders who died at her home on Monday. The burial was at Abel’s Hill cemetery on Wednesday. She was part of the Chilmark community most of her life and we will all miss her in many ways. She was the widow of Richard Flanders and mother of Martha and Steve and a proud grandmother.
The Chilmark School is preparing for transition as they say goodbye to Diane Gandy, who is retiring August 1st, and hello to Susan Stevens, who will be replacing her on that date. We will all miss Diane and her enthusiastic approach to life and we wish her a happy retirement. Susan Stevens will join us moving here from West Palm Beach. We wish her every success.
We send condolences to Alison Berger of Chilmark Chocolates, who is back at her Chilmark home after being in Maryland for three weeks with her family. Her father died of mesothelioma on May 21 at home. Allison appreciates everyone’s support.
The Chilmark Community Church will host Neil Fields as their preacher on June 7 at 9 a.m. She is chaplain and director of the Hope Project at Westborough State Hospital. Ms. Fields hold a master’s of divinity from Andover Newton Theological School.
The Chilmark School will be going to Fly, a play at the Vineyard Playhouse on Thursday, June 11. This program is sponsored by the Chilmark Public Library and funded by a Performing Arts Student Grant. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Stan and Marie Mercer recently returned from a driving trip to North Carolina to see their grandson, Eric Herman, graduate from the University of North Carolina. After the graduation they traveled to Kentucky by way of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. They visited with an old Air Force friend in Kentucky that Stan hadn’t seen in 45 years. Driving north again, they rode on 60 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway and all of the Skyline Drive in Virginia. The next stop was a two-night stay at a working farm and bed and breakfast in Pennsylvania Dutch country. A special treat arranged for them by the owner of the B and B was an evening meal in an Amish farm kitchen with all the fixings.
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is looking for more vendors for their annual yard sale and flea market to be held at Waban Park on Saturday, June 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. You can download applications athospiceofmv.org or call the office at 508-693-0189.
Roberta Gross of Aquinnah and Washington, D.C., will have an exhibit of her recent paintings and collographs at the Chilmark Public Library, with an opening reception planned for June 13, from 3 to 5 p.m. The exhibit will continue through July 2.
Bob and Emma Shalhope are back at their Menemsha home, Barn Again, after a winter at their home in Norman, Okla. Their daughter Adelaide, of Boston, visited last weekend.
Ted and Judy Mayhew are enjoying a visit with Judy’s cousin, Jutta Berger, of Bregenz, Austria. This is Ms. Berger’s first visit to the United States. Judy saw her nine years ago when she visited Austria but Ted has not seen Jutta for over 30 years.
Special birthday wishes go to Hildy Mitchell of Vineyard Haven who celebrates on June 6.
Robert and Jane Piore Gilman have come from New Jersey for some time at their newly completed home on North Road.
Tim and Mary Anna Eaton of Chilmark and Ocean Ridge, Fla., are happy to tell us of the up coming wedding of their daughter, Asia Anna Eaton, to Sean Michael McGowan on June 20 at the family home in Chilmark. The couple met in Chicago, where Asia has just completed her doctorate of social psychology. Sean’s family will travel to Chilmark from Iowa. The ceremony will be held in the original James N. Tilton sheep path on their property. Best wishes from us all!
The Chilmark Planning Board is interested in hearing your comments on wind turbines. Please send them to town hall, the Planning Board.
A few weeks ago I asked if anyone sees bats anymore in Chilmark. One resident of North Road told me her family sees them usually in June and they believe that the bats keep the mosquito population down in their back yard. A reader from South Road told me she hadn’t seen bats recently but remembered them in former years. Well, thanks to David Wice, I have three wonderful pictures of a smallish brown bat that joined a recent picnic at a Seven Gates home (North Road) and attached himself to the underside of a sun-umbrella. He looked like a healthy and happy specimen and I guess we can assume bats are alive and well on the north shore of Chilmark. Since June is here and maybe bats come with it, please keep an eye out and tell us what you find in your neighborhood ... fun to know what creatures share Chilmark with us.
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