Books & Ideas
Mary Jane Carpenter will give a free public talk on the history of Edgartown’s Carnegie Library building, at the library at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,...
FOUR FISH: The Future of the Last Wild Food. By Paul Greenberg. Penguin Press, New York, N.Y. July 2010. 304 pages. $25.95, hardcover.
The title...
In the late summer of 2004, Barack Obama agreed to participate in a forum on race relations held at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
This week’s evening lecture at the Chilmark Community Center is Inside Enemy Lines: How Technology Is Changing the Business of Media with Jessica...
Poet Judith Tannenbaum, the author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives, is presenting her work at Featherstone on Thursday, August 19 at 6:30...
Purdue University geophysicist Andy Freed, a member of the first scientific team on the ground in Haiti after the January 12 earthquake that killed...
Race, Religion and Reason is the title for the forum on Wednesday, August 18, hosted and organized by seasonal resident and Harvard professor...
Author Fanny Howe is, by her own account, “sort of obsessed with issues of race.” Her father, Mark deWolfe Howe, was a civil rights activist and Ms...
Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will deliver a lecture titled The Israeli Arab Conflict in Fact and in Fiction at the Chilmark Public...
First In, First Aid
The American Red Cross will hold an adult CPR/AED and first aid class on August 14 at the new YMCA on the Edgartown-Vineyard...
Literature at Lighthouse
A special evening program called Ships and Sailors, with a tour of the Edgartown Lighthouse, music, and grog and hardtack...
All About Wampum
Archaeologist and educator Dr. Jim Bradley will discuss the Native American money system in a talk called Visiting Wampum: Dutch...
