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The Martha's Vineyard Times is a weekly publication.
May 12 - May 18, 2005 Edition
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Chilmark May 12, 2005 By Jacqueline Sexton - 508-645-2895 - jschil@adelphia.net Daffodils may be the most steadfast of all the flowers. When they're snowed upon, they hang their heads for a day or two, and then stand up straight and carry on, doing what they're supposed to do. They were zapped to the ground by last weekend's howling winds, but by Monday they were upright once again. The winds ripped off sections of roof shingles, tore tarpaper from would-be roofs, delayed construction works-in-progress and broke off a lot of tree branches, which littered the roads. Jono Miller and his wife, Julie Morris, came to the Vineyard last weekend to host a gathering at the Howes House in honor of Jono's mother, Laura Miller, who died last Nov. 7 at her Sarasota home a month short of her 85th birthday. Many friends spoke lovingly of her and her husband Fin's kindnesses during personal tough times, and, of course, there were tales of her prodigious reading. It was said that Laura had read every book in the Chilmark library, back in the days when we signed out books by writing our names on a slip of paper inside the book, and many readers recognized one another only by the books they read. Laura left her mark in the hearts and minds of many Chilmarkers. She is survived, aside from her son and daughter-in-law, by a grandson, Corley Arthur Miller of Sarasota. Diana and Norman Freed have returned from West Lafayette, Ind., where they went to meet their new grandson, Calvin David Freed, the son of Andrew and Melissa Freed. Calvin was born on April 28 and weighed eight pounds, eight ounces. He has an older brother, Orion. Andrew Freed is a professor of geophysics at Purdue University. What with all the snow days last winter and MCAS testing this month, school children are keeping pretty busy finishing up the last months of school for the year. News of note includes the fact that Jack Regan's third graders' hardcover book, “Grey's Raid,” which has been on display at the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, has been made into an audio book. It will be posted on the school's web site soon. Happy Mother's Day to all Island mothers, who were wined and dined and received phone calls and flowers, and generally made merry on Sunday.

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