Eileen Maley
One evening nearly 50 years ago, Tom and Helen Maley were having dinner with their good friends Bob and Maggie Schwartz and the Chicago artists Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen.
I don’t mind taking down the tree.
It has served its purpose. At first it was a welcome holiday guest but it took up a lot of room and I wanted my living room back.
I was standing at the corner of the ticket office by the taxi stand, watching the ferry unload.
The wood stove became a member of our family some time in the mid-seventies. We are on our fourth stove.
I had just reached into the bedroom closet. Looking back at me from the shoulder of a shirt on a hanger inside the closet was a snake.
Helen Maley, the founder of the Early Childhood Program of Martha's Vineyard Community Services, died peacefully at her West Tisbury home Sunday of Alzheimer's disease, just two months before her 90th birthday.