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

Hidden Art Insights in One Book, Open Visual Wordplay in Another

Holly Nadler

ICH SEHE DEN KOPF DES PANTHERS IM DUNKEL DER NACHT. By Dietmar Goessweiner.

AMERGIN AGAIN. By Joe Eldredge. hUMILITY pRESS, West Tisbury, 2009. $15, softcover.

Unfolding a Map of Island Life, Page by Page Through History

Liz Durkee

THE 1858 MAP OF CAPE COD, MARTHA’S VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET. By Henry F. Walling, with contributions from Robert Finch, Theresa Mitchell Barbo, Elliott Carr, Jim Coogan, Charles Fields, Gail Fields, Adam Gamble, Joseph Garver, Kathleen Schatzberg. On Cape Publications Inc., 2009. 122 pages. $50, hardcover.

Noble Truths

Khenpo Tsering will visit Martha’s Vineyard tomorrow and Sunday for a weekend teaching series, the Four Noble Truths. An understanding of the Four Noble Truths is essential to Buddhist practice and offers a method to deal with the difficulties that are part of everyday life.

The teachings will be held from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days at the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center, 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. All are welcome to attend a single session or the whole series.

Stroll Through the Seasons at the Arboretum

Tom Clark, Collections and Grounds Manager at the Polly Hill Arboretum, is giving a talk, Seasons of the Polly Hill Arboretum, at the Oak Bluffs library on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m.

Red Cross Classes

The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will be holding an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid class on Dec. 12 at the YMCA on Martha’s Vineyard at 57 Pequot avenue in Oaks Bluffs. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for CPR/AED only, or $60 for CPR/AED and First Aid.

Students will receive training manuals and certification cards.

Past , Present a nd Future of New England Fisheries

The history and future of New England fisheries will be discussed this Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 5:30 p.m., when Julie Wormer, New England Oceans Program Director for the Environmental Defense Fund will present a lecture, Catch Shares: Our Fishing Future? at the Chilmark Public Library. The lecture is sponsored by the Menemsha Fisheries Development Fund.