Books & Ideas
Cave Talk
Prehistorian Duncan Caldwell will explore the ramifications of a single unexplained groove on a cave wall in a talk called Mother Caves: The implications of a Paleolithic Freize, on Tuesday, August 31, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Aquinnah old town hall.
Sweet Words of Youth
West Tisbury Public Library continues its weeklong series showcasing local poets of all ages and styles with Leslie Prosterman and Lily Bick appearing at 5:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, August 24.
Wednesday’s poets are Eileen Maley and Beth Parker; Thursday, Maureen Hall and Donald Nitchie perform; and on Friday, Justen Ahren, Sam Barrow and Amira Thoron will read. Poet Joe Eldredge will be a guest each night. Each day the readings begin at 5:30 p.m.
Art historian Peter Miller will present a lecture on the artist Philip Guston on Tuesday, August 24, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Aquinnah Town Hall as part of the Aquinnah Public Library’s late summer speaker series.
A free educational seminar on multiple sclerosis (MS) will be held Monday, August 23, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Howes House, on State Road in West Tisbury.
The program, Ask the Doctor: Symptom Management in MS, is presented by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and features Ann Cabot.
Dr. Cabot practices neurosurgery in Lebanon, N.H. where she is involved in MS research and focuses on the treatment of people with MS.
Rainforest Talk
Stuart Davies, director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, will report on the state of the world’s tropical forests, on Wednesday, August 25 at 7:30 p.m at the Far Barn.
All or none. That’s what is listed under religion on Nora Guthrie’s birth certificate. Even with folksinger Woody Guthrie as a father and a famous Yiddish poet for a grandmother in a densely populated Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., Ms. Guthrie grew up in a household where religion was understood to be a personal connection for each individual.