Books & Ideas
This month’s flower girl stops traffic
in the garden center parking lot
in tight Carhartts and Felco holster,
wiping a smear of soil from her cheek
with clay-encrusted fingers. Where’s she been
all winter? On some exotic playa
down under, collecting seaglass? Or here
all along, holed up in a rental off Oak Lane
with only a wood stove and cable, plotting
meticulous scenarios of perennial displays.
Still confused about the positive messages that appeared all over the Island last week? Or maybe you know about Julia Kidd’s public art project but only the surface details.
Now is your chance to get the full scoop.
On Tuesday, May 8, one day after the signs come down, artist Julie Kidd will speak at the West Tisbury Library. The talk begins at 5 p.m. and will include a slide show and discussion of her latest piece, “I got all your messages and loved every one.”
A gray mist hung over the Chilmark Tavern last Saturday evening, setting the tone for a unique addition to the weekly Pathway’s program.
Justen Ahren, West Tisbury’s new Poet Laureate, shared some of his newest poems, part of a new manuscript he has compiled. The poems, narrated in two different voices — that of a mother and her son — were inspired by a simple event Mr. Ahren once saw in Florida: a woman standing in a parking lot, arms outstretched, turning in circles.
In 1995, Sarah Ban Breathnach wrote a bestselling book called Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy. The book features 366 essays about how to live life with simplicity and grace, but most of all gratitude. Oprah Winfrey called it her “favorite book,” of the year.
The book sold seven million copies and counting.
Alexandra Styron, the daughter of William Styron, will be featured at the next Speakeasy series held at State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury on Wednesday, May 16 at 5:30 p.m.
Ms. Styron’s recent book is Reading My Father, a memoir about growing up with the legendary author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.
The New York Times called Ms. Styron’s book, “Ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning.”
The art of Lyn Hinds is on display at the West Tisbury Library for the month of May and an opening reception will be held on Friday, May 11, at 4 p.m. at the library.
Ms. Hinds studied at the University of Connecticut and the University of Hartford Art School. Her work has been exhibited at the New Haven Paint and Clay Club Show, Works by Artists of New England and New York, the Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc.Show (Best In show Award), Dragonfly Gallery and the Hermine Merel Smith Fine Art Gallery.