Books & Ideas
This week’s evening lecture at the Chilmark Community Center is Inside Enemy Lines: How Technology Is Changing the Business of Media with Jessica Vascellaro, deputy bureau chief in New York, and formerly San Francisco, for the Wall Street Journal.
Race, Religion and Reason is the title for the forum on Wednesday, August 18, hosted and organized by seasonal resident and Harvard professor Charles Ogletree at the Performing Arts Center of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs. The event is free and open to all.
Poet Judith Tannenbaum, the author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives, is presenting her work at Featherstone on Thursday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Purdue University geophysicist Andy Freed, a member of the first scientific team on the ground in Haiti after the January 12 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people, will talk about that earthquake at the Chilmark Public Library on August 18 at 5:30 p.m.
His presentation will explain the tectonics of the region, how the earthquake was anticipated, why so much destruction occurred and why the danger is far from over. He will also talk about his experiences traveling around the country after the earthquake.
Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will deliver a lecture titled The Israeli Arab Conflict in Fact and in Fiction at the Chilmark Public Library on Thursday, August 19 at 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Mr. Dershowitz, a Chilmark summer resident, is one of the best-known criminal lawyers in the world and a fierce defender of individual rights. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, he joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.
Author Fanny Howe is, by her own account, “sort of obsessed with issues of race.” Her father, Mark deWolfe Howe, was a civil rights activist and Ms. Howe, who now lives in West Tisbury, grew up in the slow-burning racial fire of Boston.
Author Fanny Howe is, by her own account, “sort of obsessed with issues of race.” Her father, Mark deWolfe Howe, was a civil rights activist and Ms. Howe, who now lives in West Tisbury, grew up in the slow-burning racial fire of Boston. These experiences culminated in ’Tis of Thee, a work of drama more poetry than play, penned by Ms. Howe, directed by Robert Scanlon and presented by actors Anthony Gaskins, Jill Macy and Charles Turner on Monday evening at the Vineyard Playhouse as part of its Monday Night Special series.