Books & Ideas
One of the most accomplished paleoanthropologists of our time, Donald C. Johanson, will give a talk called What’s New in the Last Few Million Years...
Arts a la Carte, a new children’s arts discussion series at the Featherstone Center for the Arts, will kick off this Thursday with a bang: a Molly...
Island readers anticipated Philip Craig’s annual mystery novels like their first summer swim. The author died this year, leaving one last novel...
KILLER HEAT. By Linda Fairstein. Doubleday, 2008. 384 pages. $26 hardcover.
Killer Heat, like any good title, is a play on words. It refers to...
Many of today’s top writers of thrillers have spent untold hours in the actual forensics and crime fields, and Australian doctor and bestselling...
On Wednesday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m. the Polly Hill Arboretum kicks off its summer lecture series with Chanticleer Gardens horticulturalist and...
Alan M. Dershowitz will speak about his latest book, Is There a Right to Remain Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11,...
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years in Manhattan to help...
WOODEN BOATS OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD: The Photography of Louisa Gould. Text and photographs by Louisa Gould. Flat Hammock Press, 2008. 64 pages. $19....
Art for Kids
Art for Kids with Mickey Stone is a new program at the M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 State Road in West Tisbury. Opening this week,...
Sea Education Association president and former New Bedford mayor John Bullard presents Global Warming: What’s Going On Here? What Do I Do About It...
The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association kicks off its 2008 summer reading program, Wild Reads at Your Library, with a lively performance by Bill...
