Books & Ideas
The Adult and Community Education Program (ACE MV), which offers classes on a wide range of subjects from taxes to nautical knots, has a new catalogue of 50 courses for the spring session, which begins at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School March 9 and runs until April 16. Classes meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. There will also be single-event seminars.
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 has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library is giving away MP3 players. The library will be offering two classes in February to teach patrons how to use the Clams (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing) overdrive service to download audio books and music.
The classes will be offered at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 28 at the library. During each class a drawing will be held, and one class participant will win an MP3 player, a portable device that can be used to listen to digital audio files.
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 has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
Midlife Is Not a Crisis
Are you a person beyond mid-life who has been wondering how to make the most of the rest of your life? Join a new discussion group which meets at the West Tisbury library on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 9:30 a.m.
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 has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
