Books & Ideas

Expert to Explain Training Fund Open to Employers

The current national employment situation, including industry and employment data specific to Martha’s Vineyard, is the subject of a free...

7:01 pm, January 8, 2009
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Resolve to Let Kids Play in Creative Drama Class

Phyllis Vecchia will be holding a winter creative drama workshop for four-and-a-half to ten-year-olds at the Oak Bluffs School. Classes will be...

2:02 pm, January 1, 2009
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Chapter 33: Turning Over a New Leaf

Nicole Galland

In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after years in Manhattan to help her...

1:58 pm, January 1, 2009
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Library Displays Art

Library Displays Art Selected works from the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association’s Permanent Collection will be exhibited at the West Tisbury...

1:56 pm, January 1, 2009
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Counselling Course

Counselling Course Curry College at Plymouth offers a certificate in Substance Abuse Counseling. This program is for those who are interested in...

1:34 pm, January 1, 2009
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New Teachers and Features at Featherstone

Tom Dresser

When Featherstone Center for the Arts launched its annual autumn appeal, the focus was on family members of multiple generations who participate in...

10:23 am, December 25, 2008
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Chapter 32: ’Twas the Night Before Moby

Nicole Galland

In this yearlong serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her...

10:11 am, December 25, 2008
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Message To A Widow

Message To A Widow In a small, protected inlet of the evening pond, loud white in a strong shaft of final, flaming sun, one swan lies on quiet...

8:49 pm, December 18, 2008
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Half Price Time for Books at Chilmark Library Sale

The annual December used book sale at the Chilmark Public Library will continue through the end of the year. From now through Dec. 24, everything...

8:24 pm, December 18, 2008
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Adult and Continuing Education Offering Forty Subjects; from Geology to Google

Interested in blogging? Bioethics? Belly dancing? The Adult and Community Education Program (ACE MV) announces its new catalog of courses —...

7:07 pm, December 18, 2008
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Chapter 31: Labyrinthitis

Nicole Galland

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her...

2:32 pm, December 18, 2008
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Gifts for All, Good Tidings for Island

Phyllis Meras

In Tisbury town on Church street,the traffic all was stuckSo those who’d gone on shopping spreeswere clearly out of luck.They grumped and groaned and...