Tony Guthrie helps Graeme Milley place an ornament on the Giving Tree at Chatham Bars Inn in 1995. The inn continues the Giving Tree tradition this...

Willard Nickerson guides a barge carrying an antique house at Ryder’s Cove in Chatham.  FILE PHOTO

Justice of the Peace Thomas R. Pennypacker marries a couple in a tree along Route 28 in Chatham.FILE PHOTO

Robert Duncanson installs a “mutt mitt” dispenser at Lighthouse Beach in April 1998. FILE PHOTO

Chatham’s first part-time board of selectmen, 1987. From left, Town Administrator James Lindstrom, Norman Howes, Robert Franz, Andrew Young,...

Shirley Gomes speaks at a Veterans Day ceremony in Harwich in 1988.FILE PHOTO

Chatham’s Todd Eldredge skates in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Providence, R.I. FILE PHOTO

Jean Lukes rows out of Chatham Harbor in June 2001. His attempt to row across the Atlantic was cut short several weeks later. FILE PHOTO

Fishermen and their families share a laugh during a Coast Guard vs. fishermen softball game at the Chatham VFW in the mid 1990s. FILE PHOTO

Congressman Gerry Studds, left, and Chatham Selectman Andrew Young, right, at a Coast Guard press conference in Chatham in the mid 1990s. FILE PHOTO

Chatham Building Inspector Art Child, right, signs off on occupancy permits at the Chatham Housing Opportunity Project in 1988. FILE PHOTO

Chatham Town Manager Thomas Groux talked with Congressman William Delahunt at the Chatham Fish Pier in the early 1990s. FILE PHOTO

Vandalism in the Baptist Church cemetery in West Harwich, July 1998. FILE PHOTO

State and local officials examine the east side of the Herring River in Harwich while developing new stormwater drainage, June 1998. FILE PHOTO

Repairing the steeple of the First Congregational Church in Harwich Center, mid 1990s. FILE PHOTO