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Vineyard Bookshelf

Tom Dunlop

Bright Waters, Shining Tides: > Reflections on a Lifetime of Fishing, paintings and essays by Kib Bramhall, Vineyard Stories, Edgartown, 2011....

4:52 pm, July 25, 2011
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And the Ocean, Always the Ocean

Stand here and there, old Vineyard homes, All wrapped in deep content. — Emma Mayhew Whiting They’re painting all the houses white in Edgartown...

8:45 pm, July 21, 2011
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Governor Deval Patrick Reads From His Memoir

Governor Deval Patrick is coming to the Island but this is not just another baby-kissing tour. On Saturday, July 23, he will be reading from and...

11:19 am, July 21, 2011
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Growing Art, Carol Barsha Captures Beetlebung Farm

The Chilmark Library is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Carol Barsha. There will be an opening reception held on Saturday, July 23 from 3...

11:18 am, July 21, 2011
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Alan Dershowitz Speaks

Alan Dershowitz Speaks Local summer kid, and internationally acclaimed lawyer, author, and lecturer Alan Dershowitz will be speaking this coming...

11:17 am, July 21, 2011
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Poetic Duo

Poetic Duo On Tuesday, July 26, the West Tisbury Library continues its summer of celebrating great poets as Michael Palmer and Julie Carr take the...

11:14 am, July 21, 2011
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Blinded By Brilliance, Sophocles Expert Orates

To launch the publication of The Complete Plays of Sophocles, translator Robert Bagg will speak at the West Tisbury library on Wednesday, July 27...

11:07 am, July 21, 2011
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Oak Bluffs Book Sale

Oak Bluffs Book Sale What better way to spend vacation than curled up with a good book? Oops, forgot to bring one, or already tore through your...

11:04 am, July 21, 2011
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Seal Meets Dog

Seal Meets Dog Sarah French, author of the new children’s book Summer Friends, will be appearing in the garden at Dragonfly Gallery on Friday,...

11:01 am, July 21, 2011
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Vineyard Bookshelf

Mark Alan Lovewell

BEARING DRIFT: A Story of Tragedy, Heroism and How Thirty-Four Sailors Rescued the U.S. Coast Guard. By Peter Sloan Eident. Pirate Press. 350 pages...

4:39 pm, July 18, 2011
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Kenneth Feinberg to Speak About Law and Tragedies

The tagline of the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute, “from the front lines of politics, science and the arts,” proved too true last week when the...