Books & Ideas
The first interview Michael Holley ever asked for as a reporter — from his mom, for her life story when he was a nine-year-old boy back in Akron — she refused to give him.
Mr. Holley overcame this setback, going on to write for the Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune and for 10 years a column in the Boston Globe. Anyone who follows sports in this part of the world knows that he now hosts the midday Dale and Holley show on the WEEI sports radio network, 850 AM on your radio dial.
Connie Toteanu has a special talent. From the age of seven, Miss Toteanu has been entering pies into the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair. According to the new children’s book Connie, Vineyard Pie Girl, by Chilmarker Don Davis, “Over the years she won many ribbons — some blue.”
British book artist and teacher Paul Johnson is a pioneer in developing literacy through book arts. He will be offering four classes at Seastone Papers studio in West Tisbury beginning Saturday, July 26 with A Box of Fireworks; Sunday, July 27, Books You Can Hang as Pictures; Monday, July 28, Children’s Favorites: Books Kids Love to Make, and Tuesday, July 29, The Magic of the Movable Book: Kids as Pop-up Engineers.
While most children are not going to grow up to be farmers, they will be the next generation of stewards of the land. So the Farm Institute offers several summer programs for kids 2 to 15 that will give children experiences to last long after they leave the Island, including:
• Summer camp for ages 4 to 14,
• the Work Income Sharing Project (WISP) for ages 11 to 15,
• Wee Farmer days for ages 2 to 4,
• and teen apprenticeships.
Supreme Journalist
Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Supreme Court reporter, will give two talks this week: Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center as part of its Summer Institute lecture series, and then, Thursday, a free talk about legal trends at the nation’s top court at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Della Hardman Day
The Oak Bluffs Public Library will host an artists’ reception on Saturday, July 26, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for a photography exhibition in honor of Della Hardman Day.
The library held a contest to select images to be included in the 2009 Savor the Moment calendar. Selected photographs will be on display at the library from July 25 to August 16. More information about the event is available by calling the library at 508-693-9433.