Chilmark
August 11, 2005
By
Jacqueline Sexton - 508-645-2895 -
jschil@adelphia.net
Chilmark takes a break this week after last weekend’s book festival to prepare for the next big event - the annual road race. The race, started 28 years ago with a handful of runners by Hugh Weisman, has grown in popularity and numbers into the hundreds, including babies in strollers and grandpas on their own schedule. Everyone has a marvelous time. The transportation logistics have been worked out, and the police keep traffic moving, but don’t plan to hurry through Beetlebung Corner while the race is on. Pick up registration packets at the community center tomorrow, Friday, August 12, at 5 pm. The 3.1 K race down Middle Road begins at 10:30 am, Saturday, August 13. Awards ceremony follows at the center.
The following day, Sunday, August 14, the center will host the Alex Cohen memorial basketball marathon for charity from 12 noon to 6 pm.
Middle Road will be a busy place all day on Saturday, what with the road race in the morning and an 80th birthday party for Middle Road summer resident Phyllis Gourley, who expects relatives and friends from grandchildren to contemporaries, coming from all over the country for a birthday celebration. The birthday party will follow an art exhibition reception at the library from 4 to 5 pm, when Mrs. Gourley’s son Geoff Gourley and daughter, Karen Lehman, both professional photographers,Å]will open a show of their work. Geoff and Karen have spent the last year planning the show in honor of their mother’s birthday, and their photos will complement each other. The whole community is invited to the reception at the library. The show will be up until the end of August.
Jules Worthington is showing new paintings at the Sovereign Bank through August 18.
The deadline for submission of entries for the Brickner Poetry Contest is next Saturday, August 13 at 5:30 pm. The contest is open to youngsters in grades six through 12, both Vineyard residents and seasonal visitors. Call the library at 508-645-3360 for more information.
The Independent Film Festival offering for next week is "The March of The Penguins,” on Wed., August 17 at 8 pm at the community center. Said to be "One of the most beautiful love stories on earth”, the film is rated G and is appropriate for the whole family. Narrator is Morgan Freeman, and the director is Luc Jacquet.
David Modigliani has been hired by the community center and the Town Affairs Council to do a documentary on the history of the community center in honor of its 50th anniversary and is looking for footage of any old center events. You can reach David at davidmodigliani@gmail.com.
Photographer Alan Brigish will give a slide show and talk on "Brazil: The New Frontier” at the library next Wed., August 17, at 5:30 pm.
The walking women will meet at Peaked Hill Reservation at 9 am next Thursday, August 18. Parking is a half mile off Middle Road on Tabor House Road, on the left.
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