The Chatham Garden Club of Chatham, Massachusetts
On Tuesday, April 17, 1968, 29 women met to form the Garden Club of Chatham. From the start the Club helped to make the town bloom. Membership was at first limited to 50 people, and now our Club has 200 active and honorary members and 50 sustaining members.

In 2000, the Chatham Chamber of Commerce awarded its first Citizen of the Year award to our Club. Over the years, we labeled trees in Chase Park, gave away tree seedlings on Arbor Day, helped fund the Chatham Friends of Trees, and embarked on an ambitious project, the Kousa Dogwood Tree Beautification Program, aimed at lining Route 28 from Harwich to Shore Road with dogwood trees. The Club gave over 100 trees to the town and when the plantings were finished, the trees spread their snowy branches throughout the town and continue the show each June, adding to the beauty of this place.

Over the years, our members have worked hard and had lots of fun doing flower shows, tours of homes and gardens, the Christmastime Festival of Trees, the Garden Club Market at the Creative Arts Center's Annual August Festival, and a cookbook called Tea By the Sea. The golden welcome of dozens of daffodils we've planted throughout town are evidence of the work and fun our members have enjoyed over the years.

Programs
The Chatham Garden Club generally meets on the third Tuesday of the month at the Methodist Church on Main and Cross Streets at 12:30 p.m. during the months of October, November, January, February, March, April and May. This year the October meeting will be at the Truro Winery and all other meetings will be at the Chatham Community Center. The December meeting is a holiday luncheon.

Photos and Article on the 40th Anniversary Celebration, April 2008

July 4, 2008
Chatham Garden Club in the Fourth of July Parade
Garden Club members represented themselves well in the 4th of July Parade as part of our 40th Anniversary Celebration! We had two vintage vehicles in the parade - a 1931 Ford pick up truck and a 1931 Ford Roadster car decked out with appropriate signs. Several members walked alongside the vehicles with straw hats, garden tools or baskets, wearing the CGC aprons. It was a festive and fun time for all!

The Chatham Garden Club brings flower power to the The Fourth of July Parade 2008.

 

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