CPR Class

The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, will hold an adult CPR/AED class and an infant and child CPR review on Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Y.M.C.A. of Martha’s Vineyard on 111R Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon and costs $40.

The Red Cross now offers a blended learning combination. This consists of an online training portion followed by a short period of class training and certification testing.

If You Go to Sea

If you go to sea you really must know

What to do when the wind she blows.

If weather bodes toward a nasty gale

You must, beforehand, shorten sail.

As the gale comes on and it gets quite rough

Head up to weather but don’t let sails to luff.

It’s a good idea to use a drogue

To keep the vessel under good control.

If when quite rough and stomach is sour

Poet Laureate Reads

Don’t pass up the chance to see Poet Laureate Fan Oglivie of West Tisbury read in her native land. Ms. Ogilvie, along with poet Patrick Phillips, will be reading at the West Tisbury Public Library on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m.

Ms. Ogilivie has taught workshops at the Featherstone Center for the Arts and at the Dukes County House of Correction. She has also published several chapbooks, most recently Poems from the Gray Bar Hotel (2010).

Library Forum

In a public forum to be held Monday, December 6 at 5:30 pm, the West Tisbury Free Public Library’s building committee will unveil the first detailed drawings of the library addition developed by the Boston-based firm Oudens-Ello Architecture.

Since April the West Tisbury Library has held monthly public forums to outline the library’s history and needs and to gather public comment. The forum on Dec. 6 is the eighth in the series and the second to include the architects.

Lamplighter Gets Oily

The West Tisbury Library welcomes visiting artist Billy Hoff to their gallery with a reception on Saturday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.

Although Mr. Hoff’s art is just visiting the library, Mr. Hoff the person is no mere interloper. Although born in New Jersey, he saw the light and moved to West Tisbury where he lives with his wife and two children.

Patricia Neal Month

It’s Patricia Neal month at the Vineyard Haven Public Library’s Tuesday night film series.

This week, on Tuesday, Dec. 7, Ms. Neal stars as Alma Brown in the role that won Ms. Neal an Oscar for best performance in the movie Hud with Paul Newman. Subsequent films are The Day the Earth Stood Still on Dec. 14, The Fountainhead on Dec. 21 and The Subject Was Roses on Dec. 28.

All movies begin at 7 p.m.

For more information, call 508-696-4211.