Books & Ideas
A Red Cross community CPR review class, for those who possess a current CPR certificate and would like to renew it for another year, is slated for Saturday, April 10, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. To be held at the YMCA at Cottager’s Corner, 57 Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs, the course costs $40 and will recertify your current CPR certifcation.
A Chokesaver for Restaurant Emergencies training class will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. in the same location. It is available at a spring discounted price of $20.
For a weekday in late March on Island, it was a book launch of exceptional glamour: 46 avid fans showed up. The author lectured, read and fielded questions in a turret room flanked by a small amphitheater of seats. Even paparazzi were on hand, if you count the duo from the Gazette. The reception to the reading was rousing. The questions were intelligent and penetrating. The event ended with a round of applause and a platter of cupcakes.
Spring at Sassafras
The Pathways Projects Institutes is offering several classes and performances in the coming weeks. Pathways, in seasonal residence at the Chilmark Tavern off State Road, is a gathering space for artists of all mediums and disciplines.
Polly Hill Arboretum hosts an apple grafting workshop next Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. John Bunker of Fedco Trees, known in some circles as an “apple whisperer” for his natural gift for working with apple trees, will lead the workshop. A valuable tool for the propagation of plant cultivars, grafting is a technique of joining two plants to continue their growth as one on a single plant. Grafting is particularly useful in the preservation of heirloom apple varieties.
Winner’s Circle
I’m trying to rhyme the word “Vineyard;”
Thank goodness it isn’t a sin word.
Unlike that Nantucket
Where oaths fill a bucket,
We keep our frustrations all inward.
— Eileen Maley
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A man with no key to Quansoo
His paltry investments did rue
With portfolio tanked
That bright shining bank
Could only be reached by canoe.
— Beth Parker
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