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

Wee Farmers

The Farm Institute will offer three Saturday sessions this fall for tots (ages 2 to 4) on Sept. 13, Sept. 20 and Oct. 11 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Sign up for one or all three.

Each Wee Farmer session will offer a different garden and/or animal focus. Developed to engage young eaters in fresh food and how it gets to their table, little ones with their caregiver will join farmer/teacher Mary Baker on the farm to harvest, cook, eat and visit the animals with leftover treats.

Chapter 16: The Wash-Ashore Herbalist

Nicole Galland

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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Author Tony Horwitz Tells of Voyage Long and Strange

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz will discuss his latest book, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, at the Chilmark Public Library on Thursday, Sept. 11, 5 to 6 p.m.

The book recounts Mr. Horwitz’s journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. The talk is free and all are welcome.

Author Recalls Rice School Murders: Talk is Tuesday

Author Tom Dresser will discuss his book Mystery on Martha’s Vineyard: Politics, Passion and Scandal on East Chop, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.

Vineyard Whalers Return in Marc Songini’s Tales

Author Marc Songini will return to the Island to speak about his book, The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler’s Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster, at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all.

All Older Drivers Invited To Two-Day Safety Course

The Tisbury Council on Aging will sponsor a two-day drivers’ safety course for drivers 50 years of age and older. The course will be taught in two four-hour sessions in two days. The cost is $10.

The course will address the following topics: vision and hearing changes, effects of medications in driving, changes in reaction time, left turns and other right-of-way situations, new laws and how they affect you and hazardous driving conditions.