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Tisbury August 4, 2005 Hermine Hull - 508-693-2525 - hrmhull@gis.net For those of you who have been reading this column for a while, you will notice a sense of seasons and annual rituals. So it was that, driving down State Road last week, I was pleased to observe the first signs of arrivals and setting up of the Fair. The hayfields are growing their second crop, and the past two nights it has been cool enough to sleep happily under a blanket. We are halfway through the summer. Kathy Lobb called last night to ask me about judging at the Fair, another anticipated ritual. Kathy and Eleanor Neubert had been off-Island yesterday to the Barnstable County Fair. They enjoyed the day and the comparison of how things are done in other places. On their way home, they stopped to visit Eleanor’s sister, Mary. The premium books arrived in many mail boxes last week, a sure sign that Fair time is on the way. Opening day is Thursday, Aug. 18. Eleanor wants to remind prospective exhibitors and fairgoers that premium books and entry blanks are also available on the Ag Hall porch. The office is staffed Monday through Friday, 9 am to noon; the phone number is 508-693-9549. Eleanor stressed that entry blanks must be handed in by 5 pm on Monday, Aug. 15. Margaret Logue stopped by the other day with a gift of daylilies from her garden and sad news about Karen MacKay’s illness. Karen, the cartoonist/illustrator for this paper, and her husband Jack, the manager of Alley’s Store, are well-known in town. Karen has breast cancer, which has now spread into her bones. An allergic reaction to medication has left her in great pain and unable to move from a sitting to a standing position without assistance. I have been asked to write this to spare them having to tell about it repeatedly themselves. The Times has generously put Karen on a paid sabbatical leave. An account for the Karen S. MacKay Benefit Fund has been set up at the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank. Margaret is using her e-mail, elogue@capecod.net, as a clearinghouse for Jack and Karen, and will forward messages to them. She is also coordinating a list of needed items and services with volunteers and donors. Here is the list: Money (cancer treatments can cost $25,000 and more.) Please make donations to the Coop Bank fund or directly to Karen and Jack at P.O. Box 3096, West Tisbury, MA 02575. They could also use a small air conditioner and a refrigerator (Karen can’t get at the small, below-the-counter one they have) and help with house-cleaning, laundry, and dump runs. Again, please do this through Margaret Logue. Welcome to Ellen Gaskill, the new assistant manager at Alley’s Store. Spencer has left to work in Aquinnah. We wish you well, both of you, in your new ventures. The Friends of the West Tisbury Library report that their book sale was a great success and they are beginning preparations for next year. You may bring any book donations (clean, unmarked, in good condition) to the Library when it is open. The Friends collect books throughout the year for their Annual Book Sale in July. They also want to thank Manny and Sharon Estrella for all their help, and Brian Kennedy and his crew. Lisa and Donnie Rogers celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary last week on July 27, at a festive dinner at Lola’s with their sons Morgan and Will, and Will’s girlfriend, Jenny Murphy. Lisa and Donnie were married all those years ago at Ralph and Ethel Sherman’s farm in Chilmark. John Alley performed the ceremony. A trip to Antigua is planned for this winter. Congratulations to you both and many more years together. The Doyle family came to visit me on Saturday. They gather at Jamie’s house on Lambert’s Cove Road every summer. Cait and Frank Berfield and their children, Jack and Mimi, are here from Piedmont, California. Peter and his partner Priscilla Davis came from Santa Monica. Jamie is also hosting two friends, JD and Matt Hutchinson, from Shrewsbury. After a day at the beach, they were all heading off to Smoke ‘n Bones for ribs. Their mother, Betty, was a friend of mine from when we all lived in Edgartown. My brother Mark lived with Jamie and Cait, first in Edgartown on Davis Lane, then up across the road from us in West Tisbury. We always remembered the phone number 6878 because it was the number we had as children in Ridgefield. Peter Doyle has spent the past winter in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where he was on the set of the film “Leningrad.” He produced and wrote the English version of the script. The film stars Mira Sorvino, Gabriel Byrng, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker will be having an opening Friday, August 5, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Shaw Cramer Gallery in Vineyard Haven. Her watercolors, oil paintings, and monotypes will be on view through August 19. Grace, my kitty, is sitting by my side as I write this, purring for attention and rubbing against my hand. The sky is lightening, a warm pink, through the trees. It is time to put on the coffee, feed the dogs, and begin another day. |
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