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    The evolution of Music on Martha’s Vineyard

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    Photo by Peter Simon “Music on Martha’s Vineyard” by Tom Dresser and Jerold Muskin, copyright 2014 from The History Press, Charleston, SC. Paperback, 188 pages. $19.99. Available at Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven, Edgartown...

    Introducing ‘Islanders Read the Classics’

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    “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined,” Toni Morrison wrote in her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, Beloved. The Martha’s Vineyard Times and The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association invite you to embrace Ms. Morrison’s words...

    Islanders Read the Classics: Two veteran racial explorers join forces

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    Starting Thursday, March 3, one of the many literary experts on the Island will speak each month about a classic work of their choosing at one of the six town libraries. Islanders Read the...

    John Crelan presents ‘A Connecticut Yankee’ at Islanders Read

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    Mark Twain’s classic American novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” will be discussed by Island resident John Crelan at the Oak Bluffs library at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 19. The presentation,...

    ‘Islanders Read the Classics’ explores Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’

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      Oak Bluffs resident Holly St. John Bergon will discuss one of poet Sylvia Plath’s major collections, “Ariel,” on Wednesday, May 18, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark library. Her talk is the latest in...

    John Sundman illuminates the world of sci-fi

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    “People deprecate science fiction as being a literature of ideas. But so is ‘Moby Dick,’” said John Sundman, who will lead the next Islanders Read the Classics, a two-part event on Feb. 28 and...

    Jennifer Tseng’s new life and work

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    Jennifer Tseng doesn’t live here anymore. The celebrated West Tisbury poet and novelist, and a mainstay in the circulation department of the West Tisbury library for seven years, lives now in Brookline, teaching prose and...

    ‘Islanders Write’ returns with another full day of writing related events

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    'Islanders Write' is the annual writing conference, sponsored by the MV Times and MV Arts & Ideas magazine, about the art, craft and business of writing. The full day event on Monday August 14...

    John Hough Jr. will discuss Styron’s ‘The Confessions of Nat Turner’

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    William Styron wrote “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” a 1967 Pulitzer prizewinning novel. —Courtesy William Styron Archives On Aug. 21, 1831, African American slave Nat Turner initiated one of this country’s 33 recorded slave rebellions....

    ‘To the New Owners’ recalls the bygone era of the Vineyard summer shack

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    Pulitzer prizewinning writer Madeleine Blais has spent years examining the art of memoir writing with her journalism students at UMass Amherst, so it’s no surprise that “To the New Owners,” Ms. Blais’ memoir of...