Books & Ideas
Painting Retreat
Summer’s over and fall nears. A time to relax, perhaps Wyeth style and bask in the golden hues upon the pastures. Or maybe Pollack’s your muse and the colors of autumn form seemingly random yet somehow interwoven patterns in your mind. Or is it time to jam surreal style? Breton, Ernst, Miro, Duchamp are all influences available to you. Better yet, keep digging past the known into the unknown, where the artist known as you is waiting to be released.
As part of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s archaeology lecture series, the museum welcomes Brendan Foley to discuss Robots and Ancient Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. Ancient shipwrecks littering the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea are direct evidence of trade and communication between the earliest civilizations. Dr. Foley will show us how scientists are deploying advanced submarine robots and sensors in collaboration with regional partners in Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, and Algeria.
Tom Dunlop will speak about his new book Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha’s Vineyard at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 5:30 p.m.
Cruising World, in its June 2010 issue wrote: “It was the most festive launch in more than a generation: the christening of Rebecca of Vineyard Haven, a 60-foot, 76,000-pound schooner designed and built, plank on frame, at the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, one of the leading traditional boatbuilding yards on the U.S. continent.
On Wednesday, Sept. 1, Nanucket’s award-winning author Connor Gifford will be on the Vineyard to speak before the 300 teachers of the Martha’s Vineyard school system at the invitation of assistant superintendent Laurie Halt.
Mr. Gifford also will be at Edgartown Books on Wednesday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. to sign his hit book, America According to Connor Gifford, with co-author Victora Harris.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
The book is called Poems from the Gray Bar Hotel. The title refers to the nickname that inmates have given to the Edgartown House of Correction, where West Tisbury poet laureate Fan Ogilvie held poetry classes last winter. But Mrs. Ogilvie said the jail is more like a revolving door for prisoners with haunted pasts who often can’t seem to get out of their own way.
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