Art
Slow Speed Dating
On Friday, March 9, beginning at 7:30 a.m. there will be a social mixer breakfast at an as yet unnamed local restaurant. The idea is the brainchild of Mal Jones and described as a form of slow speed-dating.
The mixer maxes out at four men and women, first to register are in, which includes a free breakfast.
Library Book Talk
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Susan Strane discusses her new book: A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Crandall and the Education of Black Women.
The book chronicles how Prudence Crandall opened the first boarding school in America for African-American girls in Canterbury, Conn. in 1833. The school was advertised as a seminary for “young ladies and little misses of color.”
The town was not pleased. There were boycotts, intimidation, and even the poisoning of their well.
On Tuesday, March 6 beginning at 5 p.m. the West Tisbury Library is hosting a talk by Virginia Carmichael, coauthor of The Albatross and the Fish (University of Texas Press, 2011).
The albatross family is currently the most threatened bird group in the world and in their extensively researched book, Robin W. Doughty and Virginia Carmichael tell the story of how its potentially catastrophic extinction has been interrupted by an unlikely alliance of governments, conservation groups, and fishermen.
Dynamic Duo of Fiddling
Tonight, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. KCT Concerts opens its 2012 season at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. There really is no need to say any more as all of KCT’s performers are tops in their field, often leaning to the Irish or traditional music. Fiddle players as top billers, finally.
But go on we shall, out of sheer pleasure.
iPhone Photo Workshop
Pathways Projects Institutes, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creative projects in the arts, writings, and collaborative forms, is offering a two-part winter iPhone photography workshop instructed by Kathy Rose.
The first session takes place Saturday, Feb. 25, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and will include instruction on how to use apps, lenses and adaptors as well as tips and guidance for editing photographs. There will also be a field trip, weather permitting.
Fall from Grace, by Richard North Patterson, Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY, March 2012, 278 pages (hardcover, $26.00).
Chilmark is home base in Richard North Patterson’s newest novel, Fall from Grace. “I’ve long wanted to write a novel set on Martha’s Vineyard, my summer home for almost two decades now,” Mr. North Patterson writes in the book’s afterword.