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

Library Sundays

The Vineyard Haven Public Library will be open on Sundays beginning Oct. 31. To celebrate, the library will hold a Halloween open house on Oct. 31 from noon to 4 p.m.

There will be cider, cookies and other Halloween treats as well as a special drop-in crafts program for children age five and up. Come in costume, and you may enter a drawing for a variety of prizes for all ages.

Molecular Geneticist Talks About Cutting-Edge Era

The logical architecture of the molecular structure known as DNA was elucidated in 1953 by Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick. Apparently, upon realizing what they had discovered, the two headed right for the pub at 10 in the morning, telling the barkeep, “We have discovered the secret of life.”

But it took more than two decades of patient, frustrating, difficult work in underfunded and poorly equipped laboratories around the world before DNA began to reveal its secrets.

Sleuthing in Vineyard Settings, Cozy, Scenic and Psychological

TOUCH-ME-NOT. By Cynthia Riggs. Minotaur Books, $24.99.

Art and Dementia

Art and Dementia is a free six-week program of making and looking at art for people with dementia and their caregivers. Classes begin on Oct. 20 and run on successive Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Preregistration is required and space is limited.

For information and to register call Mary Holmes at 508-862-1933 or [email protected].

Medicare Fraud Talk

Become an educated healthcare consumer and protect yourself and your loved ones against Medicare fraud and deceptive marketing tactics.

At 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25 the Tisbury Council on Aging will host a free informational workshop to help consumers gain the awareness necessary to avod healthcare fraud and abuse.

For more details, call Terrie Drew, MA SMP Project Coordinator at 800-892-0890 or 978-946-1243 or Joyce Stiles-Tucker, Tisbury COA Director at 508-696-4205.

NAACP Centennial is Book Subject, Discussion

An atmosphere of hatred prevailed in America when the improbable alliance of black and white people, Christians and Jews, men and women, joined in 1909 to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP.

Patricia Sullivan, author of Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, will put the audience into history when she speaks on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.