The Edgartown Library summer reading program this year involved more than 100 children and for the first time reached out to children at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. The statewide theme was Dig Into Reading. Leading this summer’s readers at the library was Jason Alpert-Wisnia, who read and reported on 58 books. Brandon Engerman read 33 books and Elizabeth Madsen read 24. Reading more than 15 books each were Whitney Johnson, Sasha Kagan, Ellie Kogan, Brant Maynard, Natasha Muromcew, Mary Muromcew, Simon Rhett and Celia Schaper.

The Trustees of Reservations offers a new StoryWalk this fall at Menemsha Hills Reservation. The book Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey will be posted page by page along the trail so as hikers continue to walk they will also move deeper into the story. Fitness and literacy, finally walking hand in hand together.

The StoryWalk Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vt., and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg Hubbard Library.

This fall, as the weather cools and many turn indoors poised to pick a book off the bookshelf and lose themselves in another world, Aquinnah resident Philip Weinstein hopes it will be a Faulkner novel.

His wish is likely to be granted, with more than 60 Islanders signed up for a course he’s offering this fall at the Vineyard Haven Library. Discovering Faulkner’s Fiction begins on Sept. 24 and will explore three of Faulkner’s best-regarded works over a series of four classes.

Renaissance House in Oak Bluffs will once again nurture the writer within as they host a series of writers’ salons this fall on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.

Tonight, Sept. 17, features Tom Dresser author of Women of Martha’s Vineyard, among other local historical books. Priscilla Douglas, a life coach and author of Getting There and Staying There, brings her skills to the salon on Oct. 1.

The programs are free and open to all.

Renaissance House is located at 31 Pennacook avenue in Oak Bluffs. Call 917-747-0367 or visit renaissance-house-harlem.com.

Ben Greenman is a novelist, short story writer and a ghostwriter who collaborates with musicians on autobiographies. He’s an editor at The New Yorker and the composer of Fake Celebrity Musicals (most recently 2011’s Weiner! The Musical). He is a popular if reluctant tweeter and the creator of charts and graphs about charts and graphs.

Adept at changing pace, Mr. Greenman’s life imitates his work: for part of each summer, he trades the bustle of Brooklyn for the relative quiet of the Vineyard, continuing his varied projects from his family’s home in Aquinnah.

Author Michael Tougias likes to focus on real life adventure stories, particularly tales of disaster and rescue. One of his books, The Finest Hours, is based on what is often considered the most difficult rescue missions the U.S. Coast Guard ever attempted. His most recent book, A Storm Too Soon, recounts the journey of survival three men experienced after a northeaster ripped their boat in half 200 miles off the coast of the Carolinas in 2007.