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.

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Instead of writing from the heart, on Wednesday, June 29 at 5:30 p.m. Nancy Aronie will be talking from the heart.

Page Earners

Why let the kids have all the fun? This year grownups get their own summer reading program at the Vineyard Haven Public Library, with prizes just like the kids and the teens.

Registration for the youth program begins Monday, June 27, in the children’s room at the library: Just sign up, log the books you read, and earn prizes including a T-shirt and gift certificates (ice cream, movies and more). Teens may register online at vhlibrary.org.

Summer Reading

School’s out so let the reading begin. The type of summer reading that can go on for hours and hours uninterrupted by anything except maybe a balmy breeze off the ocean.

But just because reading is a solitary affair there’s no need to do it alone. Head out to the West Tisbury Library this Saturday, June 25 to sign up for summer reading and learn how many books you get to read this summer to win a cool T-shirt. A double winner if there ever was one.

Escape Via Serbia

Escape Via Siberia

At the beginning of WWII, as Germany invaded western Poland, many Poles fled east to escape the Nazi occupation. Before long they became victims of a secret treaty to divide Poland and found themselves under Soviet occupation. In 1940 many of them, including 200,000 Jews, were deported to labor camps throughout Russia.

My Side of the Car, Room Enough for All

Rob Hammett

MY SIDE OF THE CAR. By Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Candlewick Press. Somerville. April 2011. 32 pages, illustrations. $16.99 hardcover.

In their new book My Side of the Car, author and Oak Bluffs resident Kate Feiffer and her father, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning illustrator Jules Feiffer, hand the reader the quintessential and timeless story of the father-daughter relationship. Written with the purity of childhood memories and illustrated with graceful humor, the Feiffers have hit the nail right on the head.

Up Close With Jaws

Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard is making its debut trip to the wider world on Tuesday, June 21 at the West Tisbury Public Library. The project, a massive undertaking featuring an exhaustive and engaging collection of pictures and stories from the making of the movie Jaws, was created by Matt Taylor and Jim Beller. It is magnificent.