Social Media Talk

Mounting a social media strategy can be a tongue tying experience. It’s an essential component to business strategy today and yet the world is still so new the path is foggy at best. This Tuesday, March 22 from the 6 to 8 p.m. the lighthouse blinks through the mist.

Slow Medicine

Slow Medicine is a movement that encourages less aggressive — and less costly — care at the end of life. This movement has come in direct response from the many elderly patients who find themselves faced with the health care system’s offer of a myriad of tests and procedures that may not necessarily improve the quality of their lives.

On Tuesday, March 22 at 7 p.m. the Vineyard Haven Public Library will host a panel of Island professionals to discuss and answer questions about slow medicine.

Free from the Heart

Nancy Slonim Aronie teaches a writing workshop called Straight from the Heart designed to help students find their own voice and write without worry. Beginning next week she will take a page from her own playbook by offering straight from her heart a free writing workshop.

The last of this winter’s Sail Martha’s Vineyard dinner/lecture series at the Black Dog Tavern will take place Wednesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. The evening will feature Dyer Jones, chief executive officer of the Herreshoff Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame.

Mr. Jones is also a former commodore of the New York Yacht Club and a coauthor of The 12 Metre Class; A History of the International 12 Metre Class.

Vineyard Voices is a book of oral histories compiled by Linsey Lee. Each story is, at first glance, a snapshot of a person’s life, just a page long. However, the effect one takes away from reading each entry is so much fuller, as if an entire life has been captured and immortalized.

To do this in just a few paragraphs takes a lot of skill and craftsmanship.

Aquaculture expert Dr. Elizabeth A. Fairchild, the Assistant Research Professor from the University of New Hampshire, will report on the Martha’s Vineyard winter flounder stock enhancement project on Thursday, March 17 at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Dr. Fairchild is assisting a group of 25 Island fishermen and aquaculturists in a project involving Lagoon Pond and Menemsha Pond. The group plans to spawn and grow 50,000 juvenile flounder in Island hatcheries for release into the two ponds. The two-year project began in November.