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

Buddhist Teacher Shows A Path Between Extremes

The Bodhi Path of Martha’s Vineyard hosts Professor Lara Braitstein for teachings on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days.

Genealogy Workshop

Reconnecting with your best friend from kindergarten on Facebook is fun. Reconnecting with your great-great-great-great grandmother on ancestry.com? Thrilling.

After School at the Farm: Spring Programs Announced

The Farm Institute in Katama is offering spring seasonal programming for ages two and up. Programs run from March 23 through May 29 and families can sign up for a series or individual sessions.

The Tuesday After School program offers kids six and older hands-on learning about our food systems, sustainable agriculture and taking care of the land. It runs weekly from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Cost is $15 per session or $120 for 10 sessions.

Bunch of Grapes Hosts Writers’ Open Mic Night

After a successul start this week — with eight writers, from the well-known Shirley Mayhew to charter school student and emerging novelist Hannah Vanderlaske, wowing the audience with their works in progress — Open Mic Night for Writers continues this Tuesday at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven.

The evening’s emcee will be West Tisbury poet Laura D. Roosevelt.

Anyone currently working on a novel, short story, poetry or essay is invited to read for five minutes.

Martha’s Vineyard Veterans Share Memories of the War

Vineyarders including Tom Hale and Ted Morgan will discuss their wartime experiences at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday, March 20 at 3 p.m. in connection with the museum’s ongoing exhibit, Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II.

Mr. Hale was an ambulance driver in the American Field Service with the British 8th Army, and he will speak of the horrors he witnessed at the liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

New Technology Fair

Learn about e-book readers (Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble’s Nook); downloadable audio books and MP3 players; online language learning (Mango); technology in the classroom; Google tools; MAC/PC Computers; Nintendo Wii Sports Resorts, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Active; and many more electronic gadgets at a free Technology Fair at Oak Bluffs Public Library on Saturday, March 20 from 1 to 4 p.m.