Books & Ideas
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. His staff includes Mott, the general manager, and Quincas, a cute Brazilian. Abe has a monomania about 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.
Hypnosis Classes
Need help with your New Year’s resolutions? There are new group hypnosis classes with Cynthia da Silva, certified hypnotherapist, beginning Jan. 19. A four-session series, the class is designed to help you lose weight and change your eating habits. Classes will be offered in various locations and class size is limited. For details, call 508-524-9022.
Computer Class
Computer troubles? Consider Making Friends with Your Computer, a free introductory computer classes at the West Tisbury Free Public Library on Thursday mornings all this month, at 9 a.m. The course will cover basic introduction to PCs, including setting up e-mail accounts, searching the Internet and using Windows. Class size is limited. Please call 508-693-3366 to reserve a space.
Maisy Comes to the Island
The popular story-book character, Maisy, created by Lucy Cousins, will be making a visit to the Island libraries, sponsored by Martha’s Vineyard Library Association’s children’s librarians. Her stories are a favorite with young children, though of course all ages are welcome. Come and meet Maisy during story times at:
Chilmark Public Library on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 10:30 a.m.
West Tisbury Public Library on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 10:30 a.m.
John Sundman is a Tisbury-based science fiction writer. He has recently self-published his third book, The Pains, a dark, satirical vision of 1984 America that blends George Orwell’s classic dystopia with a surreal version of the real-life Reagan-era. According to the author, it is a “story of faith in a world that appears to be falling apart. It tells the story of Norman Lux, a 24-year-old novitiate in a religious order, who becomes afflicted with something akin to stigmata.”
Kids missing the Christmas tree lights and Hanukkah candles already? Take them to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday for the first in a series of winter programs for children called Second Saturdays: Treasures From the Attic.