Books & Ideas
As an Island known for our close connections, we know, too, about differences. How do we respond to differences and create opportunity out of conflict? And how do we foster understanding?
That’s the focus of an interactive workshop to be held on Island on Saturday, June 14. This day-long workshop presents a new way to view conflict: as a chance for connection.
There also will be a free overview of nonviolent communication on Friday, June 13, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Howes House in West Tisbury.
Wee Farmers
Wee Farmer mornings are back at the Farm Institute in Katama, for children ages two to four and their grown-up friends ready for a morning of discovery.
Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, June 7, Farm educator Mary Baker will engage wee farmers with plenty of hands-on activities from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Participants will explore the friendship garden, meet new baby animals, hear stories and more. The cost is $15 per session.
To register or for details, call 508-627-7007, extensions 106.
Former chancellor of the University of Connecticut health center Dr. Les Cutler presents The Health Care Dilemma: How We Got Here, Where Can We Go, How Do We Get There? on Wednesday, June 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library, his lecture is free and all are welcome.
In addition to serving as chancellor, Dr. Cutler was president and chief executive of the University of Connecticut Health System and its Finance Corporation from 1992 to 2000.
The serialized, real-time Vineyard novel Moby Rich continues here every Friday. Previous chapters are available to subscribers online at mvgazette.com.
June 6, 2008
Dear P:
VINEYARD CHILL. By Philip R. Craig. Scribner. New York, N.Y. 2008. 256 pages. $24, hardcover.
A popular young Island barmaid has gone missing. An old buddy turns up who invariably brings trouble like a perverse hostess gift. It’s winter on Martha’s Vineyard and all’s well with J.W. Jackson, wife Zee, and their two small children — if you overlook a murder or two, and a couple of thugs rolling off the ferry in a yellow Mercedes convertible in search of ill-gotten loot.
What makes the Vineyard a special place for growing plants? C.L. Fornari, writer of garden information and radio host of the Saturday morning program Garden Line on WXTK (95.1 FM) is “happy to say that gardening and agriculture on the Island is thriving.”
Speaking to a packed audience at the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club April meeting, Ms. Fornari presented a slide show of selected photographs from her soon-to-be-published book, A Garden Lover’s Martha’s Vineyard.