Books & Ideas
Chicks With Poker Chips
The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network hosts a poker afternoon on Sunday, Jan. 27, at The Wharf in Edgartown. From 1 to 4...
The Bodhi Path of Martha’s Vineyard will host a weekend teaching series with the Venerable 5th Dilyag Sabchu Rinpoche called Calm Abiding...
English Conversation
The Edgartown library has begun a winter semester of free English conversation classes, led by Nancy Gardella. The class...
Find Family Tree Online
Interested in learning more about your family’s genealogy? At the Oak Bluffs Public Library you now can search Ancestry...
THIRD STRIKE: A Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson Mystery. By Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply. Scribner, New York, N.Y. December 2007. 323 pages. $24...
Fish Talk
Fish, Fish, Fish will be the topic of Louis Larsen’s talk at the next Friends of the Library speakers bureau at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20,...
Curl up in the early winter dark and enjoy classic American literature as part of the new travelling Islandwide reading group called Fictions of...
Sail Martha’s Vineyard will present a fireside dinner and slide presentation at the Black Dog Tavern on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. Capt. Peter...
THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA. By Callum Roberts. Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C. 2007. 436 pages. Hardcover, $28.
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VINEYARD BIRDS II: Where and What to See on Martha’s Vineyard. By Susan B. Whiting and Barbara B. Pesch. Vineyard Stories, Edgartown, Mass. 2007....
Readers this year lost voices that long had thrived in the Island’s literary ecosystem, from the internationally acclaimed wag Art Buchwald to the...
M enemsha was all hunkered down
’Twas quiet like all Chilmark town
In winter when it’s cold — and snow
Is falling as all folk do know
And Dutcher...
