2024 Life Logs, Day 142: Election Results
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Weather: Finally, A Sunny Day; High Temp 62, Low 52 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA
I am starting this log at 8 pm, sitting here at home on pins and needles, awaiting the results of the local election. Is Heather going to be a member of the Falmouth Select Board or not? We should know in the next hour. And in a few minutes, Heather will pick me up to take me to campaign headquarters, Grumpy’s, to await the results with her most ardent campaign members. Before leaving, however, I just wanted to say that children should not do things that make their parents so nervous! Just kidding.
10 PM. She did it!!! Heather Martin Handley Goldstone is Falmouth’s newest Select Board Member. A coalition of people who did not know Heather or know each other pitched in to support her. Many of those people were at Grumpy’s tonight to celebrate with Heather. She managed her own campaign, but she had the help of a few women who have worked with candidates in the past, a few good friends, and this newly formed group of eclectic supporters. Plus, Jed who has been super supportive, and me. I did what little I could do between my two surgeries. It takes a village. So tonight, I am a very proud mama.
I know Heather is the right person at the right time to help Falmouth make decisions for the future. Go, Heather!!!
So, Heather had to find a place downtown where people could gather to be thanked for their support and to celebrate if she won. The restaurants don’t stay open after 8:30 and the main restaurant/bar downtown was hosting a Trivia Night. Just out of town on the road to Woods Hole is Grumpy’s. It is a bar, not a restaurant, and has been a local dive for many years. When Heather and Jed were in graduate school, I remember them talking about going to Grumpy’s. The name definitely sticks with you. Heather never got to leave the community television station as planned to come pick me up. They asked all the candidates to wait for the results. But Jed called and came to get me. I just couldn’t miss this. When the first word came through that she had ‘unofficially’ won, I could hardly believe it. In a small town, it is always difficult to get elected if you don’t have the endorsement of the political powers that be. She did not. But she obviously had the endorsement of a whole lot of Falmouth friends, old and new. Thank you, Falmouth.
