b'C H A P T E R S E V E NChasing Chatham Of LifeProject Seeks To Identity,protecting Chathams small town way of Protect The Best Oflife. That means a lot of things," he said. We cannot build on every parcel that is Chatham around us.We have to preserve green ; space.It means that perhaps there are by Tiro Wood ! limits as to how many people we can t would be difficult to find someone j; accommodate during the summer, and who doesnt appreciate Chathams ii yet keep this a welcome place." y of life. But if you ask a dozen | Itcan happen insidiously, Streibert By February 1998,The C hronicle had thrown intself into the new FCW initiative assessing citizens feelings about the quality of life in town.Some of the responses were quoted in this February issue of the paper. The intense effort pointed toward an all-morning wrap-up session in September.FCWs newest venture seemed to catch the publics fancy. For its February 12 issue, officially launching the undertaking,The Chronicle carried a sixteen- paragraph lead story under the headline: Chasing Chathams Elusive Quality of Life. In parallel, the paper quoted excerpts from letters that had already arrived. As president of the Art of Charity Foundation,Otis T. Russell said, The essence of Chatham is that she is not an instant community. She has a sense of history, a sense of promise and a sense of place.Carole and Louis Maloofthey called themselves Retired, but their regular performances as singer and actor belied thatwrote with a poetic lilt: We like Chatham because its \'The First Stop of the East Wind. We like the whitecaps on the harbor and the sound of surf on North Beach .The smell of the marsh at low tide. In winter, theArt of Charity President Otis loneliness of the beaches with our goldenRussell was happy to write about retrievers running. When this phase of theChatham.Giving the town a feminine gender, he said, She is project ended, it had logged in sixteen essaysnot an instant community (and) and poems from residents, as well as essayshas a sense of history . .and drawings from 78 elementary schoolThe Chroniclechildren.119'