Books & Ideas
Andrew Young, noted civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Ga., and ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter administration,...
Summer resident and award-winning landscape architect Michael VanValkenburgh will give an illustrated presentation and reflection of Vineyard...
The poems in Portrait of a Reading Woman convey the tapestry of a life richly lived and richly told. Originally a Bostonian, Helen Gorenstein has...
The popular storybook character Curious George, created by H.A. Rey, will be visiting Island libraries, sponsored by Martha’s Vineyard Library...
Noted Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will discuss the Obama administration’s relationship with Israel in a talk titled Obama and Israel:...
Big Benefit Book Sale
The stacks are high, the tables laden: today come the crowds to the West Tisbury School gym, on Old County Road, for the...
THE FENCE: A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide. By Dick Lehr. Harper, June, 2009. 400 pages. $25.99.
Believe me, being a college president is dauntingly difficult. Better yet, read Steve Trachtenberg’s perceptive and stimulating discussion of his 30...
IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS: How 19 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Past. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Crown. January, 2009. 424 pages. $27.50.
THE ADDICT: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year. By Michael Stein. William Morrow. March, 2009. 275 pages. $25.99.
A medical license is a license...
SEEN THE GLORY: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg. By John Hough, Jr. Simon & Schuster, June, 2009. 420 pages. $25.
People of the Book author Geraldine Brooks will be speaking at 3:30 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 4:15.
