Books & Ideas
Friday Conversation
Friday Conversations at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center continue from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
On Friday Sept. 12, the speaker will be Nancy Francis of Life-Line Screening. She will talk about stroke prevention. She will be accompanied by Nicole Barlett, Vineyard Nursing Association public health nurse for five Island towns.
Sow Wild Seeds
Bill Cullina will demonstrate how to collect, process and grow your own wildflowers from seed on Saturday, Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon at Polly Hill Arboretum. The workshop begins with an overview of seed development, collection and processing followed by a hands-on demonstration of seed cleaning and sowing. Space is limited to 12 people. Cost is $40, $35 for arboretum members.
Preregister at 508-693-9426.
Israeli Consul General to New England Nadav Tamir an update on Israeli/Palestinian and Israeli/Syrian peace negotiations on Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. The talk is free and open to all.
Mr. Tamir was born and raised in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel. He began his career of public service in 1980 in the Israel Defense Forces, where he eventually served as a company commander and retired with the rank of major.
Worried about rising oil, gas, and electricity costs? There are many ways to keep these costs under control, so the Tisbury Council on Aging is sponsoring a free one-hour session called How to Keep Your Energy Bills Affordable.
The talk will be at the Tisbury Senior Center on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m.
Energy consultant Chris Fried will lead the discussion, focussing on low-cost, energy-saving improvements that can be made to most homes.
For four years, Salvatore Scibona has been shepherding new writers at the Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown through readings of their work at local libraries and other cultural venues.
Saturday at 5:30 p.m., at the West Tisbury library, Mr. Scibona will read from The End, his own first novel, that already has generated luxurious reviews prior to its release this week. Responsible reviewers have compared him with Saul Bellow, Virginia Woolf and Graham Greene.
It’s a whole new, clean green spin on trashy books: on Saturday, August 30, Island author Mathea Levine will sign copies of her new definitely not trashy book I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo at Riley’s Reads in Vineyard Haven — but kids will receive a 20 per cent discount on copies of the book if they bring three or more pieces of beach trash they’ve collected.