AUGUST 19, 2017
Programs
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All events are free and open to the public - details are available at the library website calendar. Lectures begin at 5 p.m. unless indicated otherwise. |
2017 Summer Lecture Series - Save The Date
•May 31, 5:30pm, Valerie
Sonnenthal introduces The Melt Method for improving hand and feet problems.
•June 7, 5:30pm, Valerie
Sonnenthal introduces Nutritious Movement - Moving Beyond Exercise.
•June 14, Nancy Star talks about
her new book Sisters One, Two, Three.
•June 21, Jim Thomas and the
Spirituals Choir: Slave Song Project.
•June 28, Poet and Artist Fan Ogilvie talks about her recent
work.
•July 5, Photographer Peter
Simon talks about his new book Martha’s Vineyard: To Everything There Is a Season.
•July 12, Federal Appeals
Court Judge David J. Barron talks about his latest book Waging War: The
Clash Between Presidents and Congress 1776 to ISIS.
•July 19, Ecologist and
Harvard Forest Director David Foster talks about his new book A Meeting of Land
and Sea: The Nature and Future of Martha’s Vineyard.
•July 26, Dr. Mache Seibel,
a leading expert on menopause, talks about women’s wellness issues.
•Aug. 2, University of
Chicago Cultural Anthropologist Rick
Shweder brings a unique perspective to current issues and events.
•Aug. 9, Todd Christy,
founder of Chilmark Coffee, will share the secrets behind his magic beans!
•Aug. 16, Architect Fred
Noyes talks his father, renowned architect and industrial designer Eliot Noyes.
•Aug, 23, Award winning
cookbook author and food historian Joan Nathan talks about her new book King Solomon’s Table.
•Aug. 30, Constitutional law
scholar Alan Dershowitz talks about his new book Trumped Up.
•Sept. 6, Author Mark
Schneider talks about his new biography of Gerry Studds, former
Massachusetts Congressman who was the first openly gay man to serve in Congress.
•Sept. 13, 5 pm, Historian
Jack Fructman joins the Islanders Read
The Classics series in a lecture about Revolutionary War activist Thomas Paine
and his book Common Sense.
•Sept. 20, 5 pm, Martha’s
Vineyard historian Thomas Dresser talks about his new book, The Hidden History
of Martha’s Vineyard.
• Free Blood Pressure Clinics. The Visiting Nurse Association will be holding walk-in blood pressure clinics in the Chilmark Public Library conference room. They will be held at the same time: 11a.m.-1 p.m. the THIRD Wednesday of every month. No appointment necessary.
• April Poetry Month Readings at the Library!
Poetry reading at The Chilmark Public Library 2006
April poetry reading at the Chilmark Public Library for Poetry Month. 2009
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