Water Essays

Water Matters, Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource, was recently released by AlterNet, an award-winning magazine and online community.

Water Matters includes a contribution from Island writer William Waterway. Other contributing writers include Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow and Tina Rosenberg, to name a few.

For more information, please visit alternet.org.

Falmouth on Island

Falmouth Academy will host an information session for Vineyard students and families on Sunday, Nov. 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Arbor Inn at 222 Upper Main street in Edgartown.

Island Economics

Wondering how Island businesses fared this summer and what can be gleaned from these results to help prepare for next season?

Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce, will speak to this subject on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at a breakfast program organized by the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network.

If you’ve ever watched Larry David’s hilarious HBO sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm, you’ll know the last person you’d want giving you a ride on Island roads is Mr. David himself. The whole gist of each of his episodes is, “I work hard at being unlikable.” Nonetheless, when Paul Samuel Dolman spent a recent summer rambling around our shores, a nondescript car slowed down, an older, bald guy with sunglasses peered out and asked if he needed a lift.

It must be tough to pick a name for your second solo cookbook when the first one refers to raising the bar, as in Catherine Walthers's 2007 book, Raising the Salad Bar.

Once children begin connecting with the natural world, it can be hard to stop them. Perhaps that is why the lovely new book by the young artists of Featherstone Center for the Arts, called Animals A-Z, has 49 paintings despite the potentially limiting 26 letters of the alphabet.