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Ellen Gordon Reeves, a lifelong summer resident of Edgartown and author of Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview? will be giving a free talk at the library at 7 p.m., Wednesday, August 26. Ms. Reeves has promised that she’ll review any resumes dropped off at the library before the day of the program, or e-mailed to [email protected], and use them as pointers in her talk.
Book Reading
This Thursday, all are invited to a reading and signing for a book is titled Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr, John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours, written by Tom Shachtman with a foreword by Harry Belafonte. The event Thursday, August 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Midnight Farm in Vineyard Haven. Mr. Shachtman will be introduced by Cora Weiss of Aquinnah, who was executive director of the foundation that administered the unique initiative from 1959 to 1963.
Feminist Lecture
New York University Professor Dr. Carol Gilligan will discuss her new book, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future, on Wednesday, August 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Comic Book Talk
Eisner Award winning New Yorker cartoonist Paul Karasik will talk about and sign his book, You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks, Volume II, at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven at 7 p.m. Of the previous volume edited by Mr. Karasik, the notorious Robert Crumb said “I must have this book for my library.” For details, call 508-693-2291.
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Derrick Z. Jackson is on the Island for his photography exhibit, From Iowa to the White House.
It shows at Cousen Rose Gallery from Thursday through Sept. 11. Sponsored by the African American Museum of Boston, the exhibit is free and open to the public — but the photos, signed by Mr. Jackson, are for sale to benefit the museum’s youth programs. He will appear at the Oak Bluffs gallery on Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet visitors.
For the final time this summer, you can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. Here to review what’s on the big screen tomorrow — a collection of short films — is Island kid critic David Merkel.
