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

Historical Women Rock

Phyllis Vecchia Creative Drama will be having an enrichment program for young adults titled Women In History through theatre. This will be held at the Tisbury School for the sixth and eighth grade classes.

Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman athlete and the history of Title IX, the Suffragists, Phillis Wheatley and Marina Silva, a rain forest advocate from Brazil, are the women who will be studied.

The program is supported by Mal Jones, his partner, Francie Desmone, and the town of Tisbury.

Writer&38217;s Residency Reads

Writer’s Residency Reads

Technology Mentoring Begins at YMCA

A youth technology and mentoring program called Digital Connectors is starting next month on the Vineyard through the Alexandra Gagnon Teen Center at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard.

Teen center director Tony Lombardi calls the program “a very special opportunity for landlocked Island kids to get a leg up on 21st century digital literacy.”

It will, he added, help to round out any educational experience they have and make them more valuable in the greater workforce.

Howes House Writers

The Howes House Writers are hitting the stage again in celebration of the publication of the first issue of the Martha’s Vineyard Writer’s Journal, a collection of their work.

This reading will take place on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 5 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library. The evening features readings by Ellie Bates, Jeanne Hewett, Ed Housman, Dorris Housman, and Sally Williams among others

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-693-3366.

Mussel Farming Success Story Arrives Via Iceland

Icelandic mussel farmer Vidir Bjornsson; wait, do we even need to go on? Let’s just pause for a moment to think how puny salutations like Miss, Mr. or Mrs. sound in comparison to Icelandic mussel farmer, which is just about the epitome of cool.

Friends Take the Cake

At their annual meeting on August 31, the Friends of the West Tisbury Library were presented with a surprise birthday cake to celebrate the organization’s 30th anniversary.

The anniversary comes at a propitious moment in the library’s history. In July of this year, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners announced that West Tisbury would receive a $2.98 million grant to help pay for renovation and expansion of the library building it has severely outgrown.