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West Tisbury
September 22, 2005
Hermine Hull - 508-693-2525 - hrmhull@gis.net
I think you would all be disappointed if I didn't begin this column by expressing my delight with last Friday's beautiful rain. Our gauge registered just shy of five inches. I no longer feel guilt-ridden walking through my yard. The rhododendrons look normal again, their leaves relaxed and full. Everything still has green if I scratch at the bark, so I am feeling hopeful for their survival. Yesterday, I was out in the garden pulling weeds from the moist, relinquishing soil and checking the general condition of my plantings.
Katrina relief bulletin! Students and staff at the West Tisbury School are organizing a tag sale on Saturday, Oct. 1, 8:30 am until 12:30 pm, to benfit hurricane victims. Townspeople are encouraged to pitch in by donating yard sale items on Friday, Sept. 30, 2:40 to 5:40 pm, as well as by shopping on Saturday. For more info, please call Victoria Phillips, 508-693-0761.
Our addition is coming along nicely. We are waiting for the windows to come in at Cottle's, but Mike took the storm windows off of the sunroom windows to make the new room tight to the weather. We survived the rainstorm with nary a drip. Fortunately, because Bill Ternes needed a place to hold his painting workshop on Friday, so my new dining-room-to-be served as a makeshift studio for his painting class.
One of the interesting aspects of a long relationship is the learned accommodation of partners to one another. We weathered the "great beadboard debate" (he wanted it, I did not). The beadboard is up on one wall and looks great. Once the windows are in, it will continue under the windowsills around the rest of the room. As a visual person, I cannot imagine how something will look unless I see a picture or an example. Mike kindly brought a sheet of beadboard into the space for me to see and move around, placing furniture in front of it, etc. I also borrowed a decorating book from the library and went through my files of pictures that I have collected over the years. (Everybody laughs at my files, but they have proved very useful, like Peabody's parasol.) Now that we are planning the chair rail detail, he took me over to look at the trim he made for the Bessire's kitchen. Then he made up three samples of molding and nailed them onto the wall. It made it a lot easier for me to see how it would look and to make a decision. We both liked the same one. The room is feeling like a converted screen porch, surrounded by trees.
Tony Friedman e-mailed from North Carolina last week to say that he was getting ready for a sailing trip. I'll let him tell you in his own words. "It is still summer here, but the hills have worn thin for this old sea rat. After five years away, I have signed on to deliver a 65-foot catamaran from Florida to South Africa. I'll send you a postcard when we get there."
Island Democrats are planning to participate in the March for Peace in Washington, DC, this coming Saturday, September 24. To learn more about the march, go to http://www.unitedforpeace.org. Please call Rhonda Cohen at 508-627-8709 if you are interested.
Parks and Rec announces the beginning of the fall session of yoga classes at the West Tisbury church, Tuesday evenings at 5:30 pm. The first class will be Tuesday, Sept. 27. The cost is $15 for eight weeks. Please call Peggy Stone at 508-696-0147.
A family wedding was held at the Slocum House last Friday evening when Karrie Weeks was married to Timothy Shar. Karrie is the daughter of Dolly Beecher (married to our cousin John of Thomaston, Conn., and West Tisbury) and Gary Weeks. John Alley officiated at the ceremony. The original plan had been a sunset ceremony at Quansoo, but the weather didn't cooperate. Karrie and Tim's son, Jacob, age four, stood with his parents, surrounded by Karrie's sisters, Colleen and Jennifer, with their families. Dolly's sister, Joanne, John's sister, Hannah, and friends, Brian Ruddick, Michael and Sandra Bruschino, and Karen and Dana Stockno were all there for the wedding and dinner afterwards. They are staying, in varying combinations, through the week.
A memorial service is planned for this Saturday afternoon, September 24, to celebrate the life of Karen MacKay. Please plan to gather at The Old Parsonage on State Road at 5 pm.
Condolences also to the families of Micky Kinsella and Jean Fischer.
The Friends of the West Tisbury Library Construction Fund held the last of this summer's series of author's talks at the Grange Hall last Sunday night. Stonemason (truly, stone artist) Lew French spoke and showed slides of his work. For those who missed it, Jonathan Revere filmed the event to be shown on Plum TV.
Students at the West Tisbury School helped raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Upper-level students in the school's Art Department decorated Mardi Gras masks for attendees at the Mardi Gras Ball held at Lola's Restaurant last Saturday night. The masks were sold in the school's lobby by Suzanne Hammond, Chantal Legare, Dawn Feinsmith, Veronica Conover, and Jude Tucker. All the money will be donated to the American Red Cross Katrina Disaster Relief for Louisiana. The idea came from a chance meeting at Educomp of Suzanne Hammond, an assistant in the West Tisbury School, and Penelope Dickens, who was handling publicity for the Lola's benefit.
Cynthia Walsh reported two ways to help Hurricane victims. Ellen DeGeneres announced on her television show that Warner Brothers will match all donations made to the Red Cross through her web site http://ellen.warnerbros.com. A web site, www.noahswish.org, is collecting money, all of which will go to help save animals left behind in the storm, give them needed medical care and shelter, and reunite them with their families.
We on the Island were lucky that the remains of Hurricane Ophelia went off to our east last weekend. The damage and destruction of New Orleans and Mississippi continues to dominate the news. I hope that next week's column will not be about further disaster from Hurricane Rita, which this morning is heading toward the Florida Keys and into the Gulf.
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