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Recommended Reads: Fresh from the Perkins Library Recording Studio
Please enjoy these recently produced titles from the Recording Studio at Perkins Library! Digital book (DBC), braille (BR), and large print (LT), copies of these titles are available from Perkins Library or the Worcester Talking Book Library. Please contact Perkins Library to order any of these books.
The origins of West Tisbury’s New Lane
New Lane in West Tisbury exists because of a clothesline. In the early days, the Tiah’s Cove Road originated at the two granite posts that still mark the entrance to Cleaveland House, and ran in a straight line between the house and the barn, which the 1938 hurricane destroyed. If you look at a roadmap, you can see this would have been a straight route leading to Tiah’s Cove, rather than the present two right-angle jogs on New Lane. On wash days, my great-grandfather, Capt.
The Martha's Vineyard Times
Don’t ask me to remember where I left my coat. Or when I last ate. Or even what day it is. But I remember clearly eight decades ago, bathing in the brook we called the Stepping Stones. How icy the water was against my ankles, how slippery the stones. My sisters and I would toss the bar of Ivory soap (“It floats”) from one to another. Chewinks called from overhanging branches. Honeysuckle scented the air.
The Santa Barbara Independent
An absolutely stellar performance by the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Players on Friday night. Five stars Plus. Many thanks. Do the musicians receive a stipend for the tremendous amount of work they put in to create such a superb evening? Login Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Not a member? Sign up here.
The Martha's Vineyard Times
Haiku for Trans Chick: Beware King George, the rooster By Cynthia Riggs An SBS chick, Marjorie’s now a rooster. We thought s/he was trans. A book’s in the works For small children now to learn That sex is fluid. A moral treatise With photos in full color Three-year-olds learn sex. Hens that want to crow And lay eggs in addition To mounting turkeys (unsuccessfully) Get picked on in the hen house, Rejected by all. How unfair that is Since God made us all like them Accept Marjorie The newest rooster.
Before the Storm, a Quansoo Idyll
Mosquitoes sang their evening lullaby. My mother tucked netting over my crib, and I, not wanting to be closed in, batted it away. My mother re-tucked it, safely out of my reach, she thought. Dionis Riggs, age 14, with her cousin on Quansoo in 1912. — Courtesy Cynthia Riggs My crib was on the porch of our beach house, a former fisherman’s shack near Crab Creek, a skinny body of water connecting Black Point Pond with Tisbury Great Pond. Mosquito heaven, once the sun went down.
Pleasantly Surprised
This episode is available on your local radio station, on PRX and below via The Moth Player. It will be published on iTunes | Spotify | RadioPublic | RSS on date of upload to podcast feed 8/3/21 This week The Moth Radio Hour is proud to present to you stories full of pleasant surprises. From unexpected friends, to the Civil Rights Movement, and a love story over 60 years in the making. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust.
The Art and Craft of Storytelling
Cynthia Riggs Cynthia Riggs is the author of eleven books in her Martha's Vineyard Mystery series featuring 92-year-old poet, Victoria Trumbull. She was born on the Vineyard and is the eighth generation to live in her family homestead, which she still runs as a bed and breakfast catering to poets, writers, and other creative people. Hear Stories By Cynthia Riggs Listen Now Add to Playlist
A Time to Till the Soil, Inspired by Strong Roots
I’m sitting at my computer, planning to write what I’ve been doing during our enforced social distancing in this coronavirus pandemic. My window faces the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road, and at this moment, a tom turkey is displaying his handsome tail feathers in the middle of the normally busy road, while two females scurry across, not the least bit impressed. The tom just gave up and got out of the way of the VTA bus. The Cleaveland House, where I live in West Tisbury, is my ancestral home.
| Kings River Life Magazine
by Lee Juslin When Benny’s owners died, the family turned him in to a shelter. At seven, Benny, a Scottie, Cairn, Boston mix, was calm and well socialized, so the shelter thought it would be no problem getting him adopted.
WIDOW'S WREATH by Cynthia Riggs
A favor for a relative involves a poet and sleuth in yet another murder. At 92, Victoria Trumbull (Trumpet of Death, 2017, etc.) has lived her whole life in a big old house on beautiful Martha’s Vineyard. When her distant cousin Penny Arbuthnot asked to hold her wedding there, Victoria agreed, but now she’s shocked to discover it’s a huge extravaganza with tents, sound systems, and more than 200 guests.
The Case of the Curious Codes
A woman reconnects with a man she hasn't seen in over fifty years.
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