Buying Local

Ali Berlow of the Island Grown Initiative will discuss where to buy locally grown produce at a free talk on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. at Vineyard Haven Public Library, as part of the library’s ongoing Menu for the Future workshop.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (Call me Becca) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the chief executive of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a poetry reading by local poets John Maloney and Margaret (Peggy) Howe Freydberg at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, April 8, at 5:30 p.m.

Take This Poem

Take this poem. No. Really

take it. It belongs to you.

Like anything you read.

It belongs. Like Hawaii’s

swaying palms, weighted

coconuts, rungs tying

the trunk of the tree. All.

Yours for free.

What did you think

your first grade teacher

was giving to you? Letters,

words, a dog with spots,

Shellfish Talk

Rick Karney will talk about the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group and aquaculture at the Vineyard Haven Public Library on April 8 at 7 p.m. The shellfish group is a nonprofit organization; Mr. Karney has been the shellfish group biologist and director since 1979.

All are invited.

Bullying behaviors among children of all ages has reached epidemic proportions. More than 160,000 children in this country miss school each day because they are afraid of attacks or intimidation by a peer. This destructive pattern can begin as early as preschool and it is essential that parents, educators and communities work together to remedy this situation that can have lifelong effects.