Books & Ideas
For Daniel Cooney, it began with Superperson. After spending his childhood doodling dinosaurs and imaginary creatures, Mr. Cooney took his first steps towards what would be his eventual career with the 120-issue comic featuring the “stick figure Superman.” He worked on the series from sixth grade right up through high school, penciling his friends and family into the action, and occasionally getting into trouble for drawing in class.
Today Mr. Cooney is still drawing in class, but as an instructor he’s no longer getting disapproving looks.
From Nov. 26 through Nov. 29 the Tisbury School Library is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair. Books will be available for all ages including adults.
The Tisbury School Library will use the funds raised at the book fair to purchase print, audio, and video resources to support the library, curriculum frameworks and reading interests of our students.
Hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 2:45 to 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 2:45 to 7 p.m.
Call 508-696-6527.
On Sunday, Nov. 18 from 4 to 5 p.m., the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven will host the West Tisbury Library’s semi-annual community poetry reading. This event features community members reading their own poems and/or the poems of others.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library has once again been named one of 262 “star” libraries (out of 7,570 rated) in Library Journal’s annual rating of U.S. public libraries. The rating is based on four public service indicators — circulation, visits, program attendance and public Internet use — from 2010 data collected by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
John Potter is a retired gentleman who walks his dog Rocky twice a day along East Chop. He is a quiet, unassuming man whose life on the Island centers around family; his wife Joan, three sons and daughters in laws, and several grandchildren.
But what one sees on the bluff is just the current iteration of the man.
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. Edward Hoagland will speak at the Vineyard Haven Public Library about his 60 years of writing. Mr. Hoagland lives for most of the year in Edgartown and is one of the nation’s most celebrated essayists. He has written more than 20 books, both fiction and nonfiction, received two Guggenheim Fellowships, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. His 2011 book, Sex and the River Styx, won the John Burroughs Medal. His latest book is Alaskan Travels.