The flowers are peaking, and the schools are on April break. Wishing everyone safe travels, and looking forward to hearing about adventures.
“Did you know a group of children walking in pairs is called a crocodile?” I asked my sister, son, and mother. “Of course,” my mother, Anne Hotchkiss Ganz, said, “it was one of the first things you learned at boarding school in Scotland. All 36 girls had to line up in what was called a crocodile. The girl I was paired with said, “They told us in an all-school meeting we had to be nice to the new girl from America. I’m not going to.” Yikes. When Anne came back at 16 to Vineyard Haven and Tisbury High with a Scottish brogue, she quickly learned to drop the accent. But she can still turn it on.
Anne Hotchkiss wants to know how many of her Tisbury High School class of 1956 are around.
Stanley Larsen says his Menemsha Fish Market is open for the season, 11 am to 5:30 pm.
Beetlebung Farm is hosting a free talk: “Create a Food Forest in Your Backyard,” with Roxanne Kapitan on Sunday, April 26, from 1 to 2:30 pm at Beetlebung Farm. Registration is helpful, and you can sign up on their website.
I buy the New York Times Sunday paper for the book review section and the magazine’s crossword. This week the crossword questions didn’t match the grid. It never occurred to me that there was something wrong. I just figured it was a really hard one, and spent way too much time trying to figure out how to do this puzzle.
They printed a correction on page 25, and if you cut out the new grid exactly on its borders, it tapes perfectly into the magazine, leaving all the clues readable.
The Chilmark Library will be holding a Wool Fair and Yarn Swap on Saturday, May 9, 11 am to 2 pm. If you are interested in being part of swapping your stash of yarn, books, materials, or supplies that are no longer serving you, please sign up at bit.ly/EFPL_YarnSwap. Everyone will have four feet of table space, to give away, trade, or barter supplies that need a new home. There will also be a project share-out during this time.
Town Meeting is Monday, April 27, at 7 pm in the Chilmark Community Center.
In-person voting is noon to 8 pm on Wednesday, April 29.
I appreciate Katherine Carroll deciding to enter the select board race. Knowing what has worked and hasn’t in the past, and appreciating the impact changes that have come and will come to have on a community isn’t easy and is important.
Jay Mccloud writes, “The new Aquinnah Cliffs VTA bus shelter project is about a month away from dedication and christening. Tim Laursen has finished the black locust pillars, elbows, and 16-foot horizontal roof pieces, all preassembled in his work barn. Tim Laursen’s shelter design,when finished, will be a close cousin to his fabulous work on the restaurant pavilion directly above the new shelter. Our new VTA shelter is going to be a great Aquinnah Cliffs gateway, and the most novel bus shelter on the entire Eastern Seaboard.”