Books & Ideas
Deborah Silliman Wass will showcase her handiworks of calligraphy and illuminations for the month of September at the West Tisbury Library.
Mrs. Wass studied at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School and is the former art director at the Mobil Corporation’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. She founded Martha’s Vineyard Calligraphy and Illumination and currently lives in Chilmark with her husband.
For more information, call 508-693-3366.
Phyllis Vecchia will be holding a fall creative drama workshop for four-and-a-half to ten-year-olds at the Oak Bluffs School in the home economics room. Classes will be held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
The series of classes will begin on Thursday, Oct. 2, and run weekly until Dec. 4.
Author Thomas Dresser will speak about his book Mystery on the Vineyard: Politics, Passion and Scandal on East Chop, a true story of the shocking 1940 murder of an elderly visitor to the Island, on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Mr. Dresser has previously self-published five booklets featuring favorite New England haunts.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby. His efforts have so far been failures, but that does not discourage him.
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The Vineyard Haven Public Library’s special author series continues on Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m., with An Evening with Rose Styron.
Rose Styron is a poet, journalist and human rights activist. She is the author of By Vineyard Light, a collection of poems centered on Martha’s Vineyard, where she and her husband, the late writer William Styron, spent extended summers.
Craft Works Up-Island
The Friends of the Chilmark Library are trying to organize a fiber hand craft group to meet one night a week at the Chilmark Library from 7 to 9 p.m. All knitters, crocheters, quilters, needlepointers, spinners — hand stitchers of all descriptions — are welcome. The purpose is to share our composite knowledge about these hand skills and have some fun at the same time. Beginners are most welcome, and of course, there is no charge.