Books & Ideas
Late Summer Gardens
Chanticleer horticulturalist Dan Benarcik presents Fashionably Late: Ideas for the Late Summer Garden, a talk on Wednesday,...
For anyone who has ever wondered how Wall Street hedge fund managers sleep at night and look themselves in the mirror in the morning, having spent...
IN MY LIFE. By Thomas Dresser. Red Lead Press. Spring 2009. $17, softcover.
Young love in the sixties. These five words summarize In My Life,...
When authors die, some of their work lives after them. In or out of print, it’s bound and sitting on shelves. But another chunk of inventory...
Read for the Bears
The prolific and critically-acclaimed Island author Ward Just has a new novel, Exiles in the Garden, which he will sign and discuss tonight at 7:30...
Friday Conversations
On Friday, July 10, the guest speaker at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center will be Ralinda Lurie, of the Permanent Endowment for...
Seashore Ramble
Chilmark native Conrad Neumann will present a free program titled Geo-rambles at Sea and Ashore in Pictures, Poems and Yarns: A...
CAMUS, A ROMANCE. By Elizabeth Hawes. Grove Press. July 2009. 304 pages. $25 hardcover.
As an undergrad, Elizabeth Hawes became fascinated with...
Pluck Some Summer Music in a Bargain With Cattle Drivers
Who better than the songwriter of Road Rage to kick off the summer concert series called...
Summer Reading
Children may register any time for the Island libraries’ Summer Reading Program, a prize incentive program that began July 1. The...
Mind Your Manners
Children’s etiquette classes will be held at the Farm Neck Golf Club beginning in July. The classes will be taught by Elaine...
