Mother-Daughter Book Club

On Feb. 27, the Oak Bluffs Public Library will offer a new book club for teenaged daughters and their mothers or other adult loved one. Books selected will appeal to both teens and women and will facilitate mother-daughter discussion and bonding over books. The first book, A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly, won awards in both teen and adult categories. Preregistration is requested; call 508-693-9433.

A Day at the Museum

The Tisbury Travel Club is planning a trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Tuesday, March 2. All adults and accompanied teenagers are welcome; there is no age requirement. Museum members with courtesy tickets may pay only the bus cost and join the group. The group will leave on the 8:15 a.m. ferry and return on the 5 p.m. boat the same day. The cost is $39 inclusive or $23 for only the bus (museum members). To sign up or for information, call 508-696-4205, Monday through Friday.

As the wind power debate grabs the Vineyard’s attention, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School invites the Island community to a screening of the documentary film Coal Country at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20. Admission is free; donations to the charter school science lab project are welcome.

Myers Brothers Play Che’s

Tonight longtime Island musicians Rob and Dave Myers will reunite for a special concert at Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven.

Doors open at 8 p.m.; there is a sliding scale donation for admission.

The two brothers, who performed on the Island together in the early 1990s in the alternative pop punk band the Inskirts, will perform material from their individual catalogues, as well as from their work together.

The Vineyard Playhouse once again presents Shakespeare for the Masses, tonight and tomorrow night, this time with a lively reading of Troilus and Cressida, one of the Bard’s lesser-known plays, a tragedy.

Author Talk

The Vineyard Haven public library will host a Sunday afternoon talk with poet and novelist, the Rev. Judy Campbell, on Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. Judy will talk about the writing process and getting your work published. There will be time for questions, and an opportunity to hear Judy read from her work as a writer. The event is sponsored by the friends of the library.

I had my first taste of salsa dancing at a nightclub in Florida. A friend and professional dancer took the lead and spun me around a crowded dance floor, careful to catch me from crashing into other couples as my unreliable feet stumbled to maintain some sense of rhythm.

Editor’s Note: The following is an edited excerpt of an interview done in 2004 by Linsey Lee with Leona Coleman Flu, the daughter of the first black stage manager in the Boston theatre district. A summer resident of Oak Bluffs from childhood on, Mrs. Coleman now lives in Atlanta, Ga. The interview is published in Ms. Lee’s book More Vineyard Voices; it appears here with permission from the author, who heads the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s oral history center.

From Gazette editions of February, 1985:

Today I heard that Samuel Jackson died. I immediately thought to myself, oh, what a loss to his family and the town. I remember Sammy as a main character in my life growing up in Edgartown. He was Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer rolled into one.