Part 12: The Wine Wars: My Dear Abi...

A silent board, righteous writing and outright bigotry - Oh Chatham!

As the town of Chatham waits for the Zoning Board of Appeals to decide if the garage at 509 Bashford Road is appropriate as a subordinate structure — a tasting room for commercial use, for an unlicensed product, in a building with no proof of code compliance, on a hill where a house burned to the ground because the local public safety infrastructure could not pump enough water up a steep grade — some of the townspeople seem confused. How is this happening? And just who is driving this seemingly runaway bus?

It does seem like there’s no Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves onboard to stop the bus before it goes boom.

While some of this does seem like it is scripted by Hollywood (at least some of the characters), as we all know life is not a movie. If the stakes weren’t so high and the time crunch not so critical, I’d be knocking on Netflix’s door: “Look, I know Meghan & Harry suck at content but do I have something people will want to binge.”

I get the impulse to look at all this as just drama…