Martha's Vineyard Books & Ideas

The Expanding Palate of Food Writing

Louisa Hufstader | Thursday, August 12 2021 - 4:46pm

A sell-out crowd of more than 200 people took their seats at café-style tables at the museum talk about the Changing Story of American Home Cooking, sponsored by Cook the Vineyard, a Vineyard Gazette publication.

Cook the Vineyard

CPR Classes

American Heart Association CPR and first aid training courses will take place Nov. 15 to 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Mansion House in Vineyard Haven.

These CPR and first-aid courses follow the new American Heart Association standards in CPR, and are appropriate for the general public.

West Tisbury To Hold

Focus Groups on Design

West Tisbury To Hold

Focus Groups on Design

The West Tisbury Public Library will host a series of targeted focus groups in November, part of its ongoing effort to gather community comment on the proposed renovation and expansion of its facility.

Unlikely Friendship at Heart Of Panama Canal Journey

Author Chip Bishop’s great-great-uncle, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, was a newspaper editor during the time of Theodore Roosevelt. One of the stories he covered was the construction of the Panama Canal, the transoceanic canal that today seems a foregone conclusion but at the time was considered by many to be a fool’s errand.

Healing Prayer

The Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the Order of St. Luke the Physician will hold its monthly meeting on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m. in the Anderson room of Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven. Speakers for this month’s program are Cary and Lillian Wong. The couple has been learning, experiencing and practicing healing prayer for several years in both local and crosscultural contexts.

Art in the Stacks

Jo Scotford Rice is the featured artist for the month of November for the Vineyard Haven Public Library’s Art in the Stacks program.

Less Talk, More Stories, Silent Film Series Arrives

This Monday, Nov. 7, and continuing for the next few months the West Tisbury Library will be going silent, on screen, that is. It’s a silent film series, so appropriate, really, for a place that still holds sacred the power of the shhhh.