Books & Ideas
The Adult and Community Education Program (ACE MV) in-person registration will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 5 and 6 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the lobby of the regional high school. ACE offers a variety of classes for enrichment, training and for graduate and undergraduate credit from Northeastern University college of professional studies and school of education. Another credit course is pending through Cape Cod Community College.
Tuesday Night Talks
The Vineyard Haven Evening Lecture Series begins this week, on Tuesday Jan. 5, when Dr. Jim Norton introduces the books of Greg Mortenson: the recently released bestseller Stones into Schools and Three cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time.
Oak Bluffs resident Todd Alexander will attend this first session. Through a separate project much like Mr. Mortenson’s, Mr. Alexander has been helping to build schools in rural Cambodia. One of the Cambodian students will accompany him.
The Real King Kong
Nancy died in seventy-three
She was only twenty-three
She was a gamer
She was a good one
She was only twenty-three
She was a gamer
She was a good one
At the Animal Shelter of MV
The dogs were barking with great glee,
And the cats were purring to beat the band,
As a student at the Edgartown School, a counselor once told Chappaquiddick native Stephanie Duckworth-Elliott that she wouldn’t go to college, and implied that Ms. Duckworth-Elliott would not achieve in life. The young girl had a background and home life that already separated her from other kids her age — she was a member of the only Wampanoag family living on Chappy at the time, and raised primarily by her grandfather — and the counselor’s prediction made her feel even more detached from her peers.