JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Chilmark is glowing yellow this week as the yellow flowers persist with lots of green leaves adding themselves to the visual treats. So the seasons meld and move along in the county.
The nice weather of the week made the trip to the Falmouth Hospital seem less of a chore and my life’s companion came back, after an overnight, with a new device implanted to adjust the ticker’s ticking. He is comfortable and healing and we both have lots of praise for the staff of that hospital. This information is by way of explaining why my columns have been a bit short on news lately!
Tonight, April 13, the PTO of the Chilmark School invites all to a fun night at the Community Center of food and dancing and general celebrating of the coming school vacation. We are invited to bring an appetizer or dessert or just come and help launch vacation week.
I hope you can all get to the Community Center for the Beetlebung Festival of the Arts and Edibles tomorrow night, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. Chilmark folk and more will be gathering for an evening of good food and good music and good art. The food will be by Chris Fischer; music by, among other notables, Lydia Fischer, and the art by Susan Johnson, who does Plein Air paintings of farms. Sounds like a great way to welcome spring, enjoy good food and music and visit with each other before it gets too crazy around here for visits between locals.
Deborah Freed of Boston sends word that her dad, Norman, is now in a rehabilitation facility learning to enjoy his new knee and is looking forward to coming home soon. We all send him good wishes.
The last Free Friday movie at the Chilmark library will be on April 13 at 7 p.m. It will be Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Free popcorn and drinks are offered. We thank the Friends of the Chilmark Library for sponsoring this popular winter activity.
Tom and Barbara Rivers are home after an enjoyable vacation trip to Florida, where they visited a number of friends and relatives. They especially enjoyed a reunion visit with five generations of Chilmark Larsens. The Rivers arrived home in time to celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary and enjoy knowing that they have spent more than half that time as year-round residents of Chilmark! All of Chilmark sends them best wishes!
Delilah Meegan and Bella Madoff, both of Chilmark, are traveling in Italy this week with the rest of the Charter School seniors on their annual trip.
Friends of Bob Fokos will be happy to learn that he is coming home from Boston to recuperate from recent surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
John and Renee Molinari are sending out the word that the Beetlebung Coffee House they ran in Vineyard Haven will move to Menemsha May 1. It will be in the facility most recently called the Menemsha Café. The coffee house will offer food for breakfast and lunch along with coffees of all sorts. The couple will continue to run the clothing shop next door to the restaurant and look forward to a busy season. The clothing store has been in Menemsha for the past three seasons, so it is well known to sh oppers. We all wish them good luck and look forward to the newest up Island food place!
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living will host the third in their series of cultural luncheons on Saturday April 21 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Grill on Main in Edgartown. The topic of discussion will be the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Ground Meeting Association of Oak Bluffs thru the years.
Friends and family will meet at the Community Center to remember Amanda Hutchinson on April 29 at 1 p.m. when all are invited to attend a gathering in her memory. She is missed by many.
The warrant for the annual Chilmark town meeting was mailed to all voters this week. Remember to attend the meeting on April 23 at the Community Center at 7:30 p.m. Your opinion matters and the place to voice it is at town meeting. See you there!
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