Books & Ideas
Poet Sassy Ross will be featured at a wine and cheese reading today, Tuesday, August 18, at 5:30 p.m. at The Yard on Middle Road in Chilmark. Admission is $25 for general seating; $15 for seniors and those under age 30.
Challah Baking Class
Joan Nathan, renowned cookbook author and prize-winning culinary expert, will hold a challah baking class on Friday, August 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the West Tisbury kitchen of Judith Birsh. It’s hands-on for all 10 participants, to raise money for the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
A regular summer Island impressario, Elizabeth Dembrowsky on Saturday debuts her first novel, My Monk, with two readings (1 and 6 p.m.) at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
The book notes say: “Harriet Zabrosky believed in love at first sight — until it happened to her. He became a monk. She moved back to America.”
THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC. By Richard Russo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 261 pages. $25.95.
O ne afternoon two friends happened to drop by my house. The first arrived in a little sports convertible. When the second showed up in his VW bus he walked inside and said, “It looks like a middle-aged meltdown out there.”
Tales of Marine Disasters Through Years
Historic Oak Bluffs
On Thursday, August 13 the Oak Bluffs historical commission continues its summer programs with Revisiting Summer Recreation in Oak Bluffs - 1870s to 1930s. The program takes place at the Oak Bluffs Public Library Meeting Room from 6 to 7:30 p.m. A slide show will accompany information about croquet, roque, bathing, roller skating, horse racing, biking, golf, tennis, baseball and the Flying Horses. Little known facts will be shared. Refreshments will be served.