Books & Ideas
Limerick Challenge
A public library by definition is free. However, on Sunday, March 13 at 3 p.m. the West Tisbury Library will be asking those willing to dig deep, not into their wallets but rather into their resources of wordplay.
It is the second annual limerick challenge. The rules are quite basic. A five line poem in the pattern of aabba. For those rusty with their poetry code that means the first two lines rhyme, the third and fourth lines rhyme and the fifth line rhymes with the first line.
Greenhouse Relief
Daylight saving is just a week away. Spring arrives in two weeks. Hmm, what to do with all of that additional light available other than simply soaking it up and restoring your levels of Vitamin D?
How about building a solar greenhouse. No excuses, either, about not knowing how.
On Tuesday, March 8, the Farm Institute begins a five-week solar greenhouse workshop. From soup to nuts, or rather from frame to roof, they’ll help you create a cozy dwelling to begin sprouting your crops.
The Adult and Community Education Program (ACE MV) announces a new session of 38 courses and seminars for the spring session from March 8 to April 10, with professional development classes ending in June. Enrichment classes meet on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Registration begins now online; early registration is strongly advised. There is one day only for walk-in registration on Monday, March 7 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
To us Islanders Linda Fairstein is, first and foremost, one of our best known summer Chilmark residents. To the rest of the world, she’s the best-selling author of the Alexander Cooper series, featuring Assistant D.A. Cooper of the Special Victims Unit in Manhattan.
In actual life Ms. Fairstein served as the Assistant D.A. in the Special Victims Unit in Manhattan. So when her fictional character files a particular brief or points out that it’s a point of law that the public is entitled to attend a court hearing she knows whereof she speaks.
Dandelion Gone to Seed
A sphere of silvery transparency,
at the top of a silvery stem.
Perfect in its static death.
But the next wind will blow it into seedlings,
will sing every tiny seed of it into a cloud
that drifts to earth,
to make another flower,
in another spring.
— Margaret Freydberg
The art of Michele Jones is now on display at the Oak Bluffs Library Meeting Room. The subject of her work is Martha’s Vineyard; however it is by no means parochial. Her use of color, in particular, gives each painting a universal quality, almost as if she has found a way to render emotions on canvas.