Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Chilmark

Chilmark: Musical lineups at Pathways and Potluck Jam

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I hope no one's pipes froze, and that everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Next week is school vacation week, and there are so many activities for all ages happening at our libraries, Long Point...

Chilmark: Surviving Winter

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Rain, floods, snow, and spectacular winter beauty, more snow, more rain, and a blizzard. OK, I'll stop, but the weather is a challenge for many. If you need help shoveling out and cannot do...

Chilmark: Early Mud Season?

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Hurray, Chilmark Chocolates is open again — stock up for Valentine's Day! This week you could imagine yourself or watch a GoPro film on Facebook of someone galloping down a snowy path through the...

Chilmark: Random Acts Of Kindness

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Thanks for many random acts of kindness during the first big one of the snow season: Chilmark cops who arrived in time to help a family dog unlodge something stuck in its throat; angel...

Chilmark: The majesty of winter beauty

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Snow on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, slow sense of morning peace as gray clouds blew to deep blue skies, and finally clear skies and sun glistening. The majesty of beauty, a day of...

Chilmark: Winter has finally arrived

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Winter has finally arrived. A bit of snow, a day of wind and rain with temperatures leveling into the 40s and below — amen. This week the Grey Barn and Farm is mourning the...

Chilmark: Happy New Year

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We have had a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows coming into this new year, with unexpected losses of Islanders who affected many, challenges of health landing friends at MGH, and also joy in...

Chilmark: Grey Barn welcomes Christmas Calf

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Dredging was in full swing in Menemsha Harbor just the day after Christmas! A steady stream of patrons stopped by the food truck, some lucky folks got Menemsha scallops fresh from the Menemsha Fish...

Chilmark: Farewell to the Unicorn

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Happy Holidays to one and all! The Island has been filled with concerts, singing, artisans sharing their wares, and much celebration. The last Farmers Market has taken place, though Rusty told me when the...

Chilmark: Santa on his way to the Chilmark Community Center

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The other week I walked into our library and found “Gretchen and Sam Feldman: A Blended Life,” a self-published coffee table book that shares the history of two of Chilmark's own. Thank you, Sam...

Chilmark: thankful for the changes brought by each season

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Once Thanksgiving is over, it’s one long and happy holiday blur, lights strung and night glistening in new colors and shapes, candles in windows as we near our longest day of darkness. Yes, I’ll...

Chilmark: Hello December

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December is here! First off, let me thank Hellie Neumann for removing 18 bags of dog poop and full garbage bags of trash from Lucy Vincent Beach on Thanksgiving! Actually, the trash was strewn...

Chilmark: Pick up your Poop

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I walk my dogs regularly at Lucy Vincent Beach, and am appalled that dog owners collect and bag their poop, then leave it behind on top of the trash that clearly states “Please Do...

Chilmark: we have a very special library

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Brisk and beautiful weather has graced us, with amazing light and the last yellows and oranges fading and falling with the winds. I hope everyone had a chance to read Angela Prout’s great article...

Chilmark: warm weather, a delightful tease

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The weather has been a delightful tease, easily stretching out the swimming season happily through November, and I am eternally grateful for this delay of seasons. If you didn’t cut back some of your...

Chilmark Coffee expands to the Cape

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Chilmark Chocolates reopened on Oct. 29, and by the looks of the parking lot — New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New Jersey license plates — we still have visitors passing through. I passed Marie...

Chilmark: in the mood for opera?

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How cool is it that the entire Chilmark School took a field trip to Orange Peel Bakery to make pizzas with their garden harvest? Thanks to Juli Vanderhoop for supporting a “wonderful eating and...

Chilmark: Menemsha shops still open

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I was stunned in early October when I walked from the parking lot to the beach at Lucy Vincent. How had I missed this site-specific artwork going up along the south side of the...

Chilmark: Sending love out to all members of Trudy Taylor’s extended family and friends

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If we have to have a last fall holiday weekend, this last one couldn’t be beat — glorious days and star-filled nights. It’s never easy to say goodbye, but having my friend Miriam here...

Chilmark: the kindness of strangers

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Thankful for the rain, the falling of branches before they break under snow, kindness of strangers who pass through our lives, so much support when we don't always know what's going on. Also thankful...