Arts & Entertainment
Authors Cynthia Riggs and Tom Dresser will celebrate their mysteries on Tuesday, August 12, at 5 p.m. at the West Tisbury library.
Ms. Riggs, a 13th-generation Islander, lives in West Tisbury in her family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast for poets and writers. Double Murder on Martha’s Vineyard combines her first two books, Deadly Nightshade and The Cranefly Orchid Murders. Her ninth book is scheduled for release next year. All of her books feature 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull, a poet sleuth based on Cynthia’s mother, Dionis Coffin Riggs.
Political commentator, George Mason University professor and author Michael Fauntroy will discuss his book, Republicans and the Black Vote, a historical look at the GOP and black voters, on Thursday, August 14, at 5 p.m. as part of the Chilmark Free Public Library adult evening series. The free talk is open to the public, hosted by the library and Friends of the Library. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Library Campaign News
On Thursday, August 14, Friends of the Edgartown Library will host an open house at the library to provide a summer update to the public about the library’s current capital campaign. A brief talk with a follow-up question and answer period will be held at 7 p.m.
The Friends of the Edgartown Library also will meet on August 28 at 10 a.m. at the library. All are welcome.
Learn ABCs of Travel
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12, Jeanne and Malcolm Campbell present a free slide-show of their travels from Alaska to the Baltic. This program is an ABC guide to seeing the world in the air-conditioned Featherstone Center for the Arts.
The Campbells travel widely and are generous supporters of Vineyard causes, from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and the Yard to Camp Jabberwocky and Featherstone.
For details or to reserve a seat, call 508-693-1850.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her highly-respected but eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery. He is convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, as well as all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses. Abe is now obsessed with “taking down” Moby before Moby can damage Pequot or any other Island grower.
The Martha’s Vineyard NAACP and the Oyster Bar & Grill are presenting a series of four summer luncheons with guest speakers who have made successful careers in broadcasting entrepreneurship, in organizational management and human resources, in writing, and in medicine. Lunch and dialogue is open to all. The events are at 12:30 p.m. at the Oyster Bar & Grill at 57 Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $30 per person per luncheon, to benefit the Island branch of the NAACP.
The speakers will be as follows:
