Arts & Entertainment
The current national employment situation, including industry and employment data specific to Martha’s Vineyard, is the subject of a free presentation this week by the executive director of the Cape & Islands Workforce Investment Board, David Augustinho.
The talk is set for Tuesday. Jan. 13, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which is cohosting the public event with the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
Computer Class
Computer troubles? Consider Making Friends with Your Computer, a free introductory computer classes at the West Tisbury Free Public Library on Thursday mornings all this month, at 9 a.m. The course will cover basic introduction to PCs, including setting up e-mail accounts, searching the Internet and using Windows. Class size is limited. Please call 508-693-3366 to reserve a space.
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 eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. His staff includes Mott, the big-brotherly general manager, and Quincas, a cute Brazilian. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-island wholesale nursery, Broadway.
World speed sailing record holder Rob Douglas, who last year broke the 50 mph barrier, will speak and show slides on the history of speed under sail on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Black Dog Tavern. His will be the first of this year’s Black Dog Winter Supper Lecture Series, organized and hosted by Sail Martha’s Vineyard.
Kids missing the Christmas tree lights and Hanukkah candles already? Take them to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday for the first in a series of winter programs for children called Second Saturdays: Treasures From the Attic.
John Sundman is a Tisbury-based science fiction writer. He has recently self-published his third book, The Pains, a dark, satirical vision of 1984 America that blends George Orwell’s classic dystopia with a surreal version of the real-life Reagan-era. According to the author, it is a “story of faith in a world that appears to be falling apart. It tells the story of Norman Lux, a 24-year-old novitiate in a religious order, who becomes afflicted with something akin to stigmata.”
