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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Free Tickets Now Available for Interactive Polar Express!
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Trends in Menopause--Then and Now
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This joint presentation by Daniel E. Pesch, MD, and Marcy E. Holmes, NP, will look at how the understanding and treatment of menopause has changed over the years, and what the latest recommendations are for this stage of life.
Daniel E. Pesch, MD, is Associate Chief Medical Officer and VP, Medical Affairs at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He is an obstetrician gynecologist with more than 33 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. Pesch has been at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital since 2010. Before that he was Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. Dr. Pesch is a graduate of Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School.
Marcy E. Holmes, NP, is an Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPC-BC) at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital since 2017. She previously served as Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC), Menopause Clinician (MC-C), and website contributor for the Women to Women Healthcare Center in Yarmouth, Maine, and clinician at local Health Imperatives Family Planning, providing reproductive health and gender affirming hormone therapy. Marcy was recently nominated for the prestigious Norman Knight Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award at MGB. She attended the University at Buffalo (NY) School of Nursing (BS), University of Rochester (NY) Graduate School of Nursing (MS), and UMass Worcester Medical School, Graduate School of Nursing (post-masters).
For more information, please contact the library at vhpl_programs@clamsnet.org or (508) 696-4211.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Tisbury Beach Cleanup, Friends Book Sale this Saturday 10/26!
Tisbury Beach Cleanup is this Saturday October 26th from 8-10am!
Join Beach BeFrienders & Tisbury Waterways, Inc. (TWI) this Saturday, Oct 26th to tend to Tisbury's public beaches. Sign-in anytime between 8-10am for bags & gloves (or bring your own!) at the following locations:
~ Lagoon Pond Landing on Beach Rd
~ Owen Park
~ Tashmoo Opening
~ Lake Street Landing
Following Beach Cleanup, be sure to visit the Friends of the Library's pop-up book sale at 15 Church Street (Landmarks Building) from 10am to 2pm Saturday, Oct 26th. Mention Beach Befrienders and recieve one free book with your purchase!
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the library capital campaign. Sales are cash or check only, and please do not park in the 15 Church Street parking lot.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Interview with Alpha Gal Expert Dr. Scott Commins
Dr. Commins’ presentation will focus on the basic science and translational work that went into describing the alpha-gal mammalian meat allergy. He will present research related to defining both the cause and the mechanism of alpha-gal IgE response, the role of tick bites in AGS, and the epidemiology of AGS in the US and globally. A question and answer period will follow the talk.
Scott Commins is the Dr. William J. Yount Distinguished Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently Section Chief for Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Commins maintains an active clinical practice and research program with a focus on food allergy, including the alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) and eosinophilic esophagitis.
This program is a follow-up to the two-part series on Tick Ecology and Tickborne Diseases with biologist Patrick Roden-Reynolds and epidemiologist Lea Hamner, experts from the Inter-Island Public Health Excellence Collaborative hosted by the Vineyard Haven Library in September and October, 2024. Recordings of those presentations are available on the library Vimeo channel here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11413322
The Inter-Island Public Health Excellence Collaborative of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is a project funded by the Massachusetts Department of Health to fortify local public health monitoring and delivery. The initiative is led by the joint Boards of Health on Martha’s Vineyard along with Island Health Care and the Town of Nantucket.
This event will be held via Zoom. Interested patrons may register for the presentation at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkcOmtrjgpGtOnzuCBrsJUZ3PlqCxkqtC7
The program will be recorded and available on the library Vimeo channel within 48 hours of the event. For more information, please contact the library at vhpl_programs@clamsnet.org or (508) 696-4211.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Reforesting and Conserving the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Claudia Macedo is a doctor of physical therapy in the rehabilitation and wellness department of Martha's Vineyard Hospital, who dedicates six months of the year to forest restoration in Brazil. Her work in Brazil has been recognized by BBC Earth in a 2021 story on forest restoration.
Macedo’s interest in conservation and reforestation projects focussed on the Brazilian Atlantic Forest began over two decades ago. In 2003, she started her first private project for the conservation of 2000 acres of the Atlantic forest in Serra da Bocaina, SP, which led to the planting of 3000 native tree saplings to reforest degraded areas. In 2013, she began collaborating with other local initiatives related to reforestation of riparian forest in the Serra da Bocaina region, including the reintroduction of more than 13,000 trees in the Atlantic Forest biome. In 2017, she partnered with the international nonprofit, One Tree Planted, to establish community driven reforestation projects in Brazil. In 2018, she began a project to identify and map Atlantic Forest mother trees in order to collect native seeds and propagate saplings for future reforestation.
In 2020, Macedo initiated the project “Donate a Forest,” to encourage local participation in reforestation efforts through the distribution of native seeds and tree saplings to children in the region. In 2022, she started the Collaborative Family Farming pilot project to facilitate the creation of vegetable gardens among dwellings occupied by low-income families, and in community spaces with a high concentration of families at risk of hunger. In 2023, she founded and became the Vice President of Instituto Biosfera (IBIOS), and as IBIOS representative, joined the Conselho Consultivo (Advisement group) of the Bananal Ecological Station and COMDEMA (Atlantic Forest Municipal Adviser) for the municipality of Bananal, SP.
For more information about this event, please call the library at (508) 696-4211 or send an email to vhpl_programs@clamsnet.org.
Attend the Library Renovation Information Session, New Dates Added
The Library Board of Trustees invites you to attend one of our upcoming information sessions, on Zoom at 6pm on Wednesday, November 13th, or in-person at the library at 6pm Tuesday December 10th.
This will be an opportunity to hear from the design team and learn more about plans for a comprehensive renovation of the library building. The project will break ground in FY2025, pending completion of the capital campaign and appropriation of funding for building repairs at the Tisbury Special Town Meeting on December 17th.
To learn more, visit the Building Committe project webpage, or click here to watch a four minute video about the project. To support this project by making a donation, visit the Vineyard Haven Library Building Fund, Inc. Capital Campaign website.
Friday, October 11, 2024
The Combat Zone: Murder, Race and Boston’s Struggle for Justice with author Jan Brogan
At 6:00 PM on Thursday, November 7th, the Vineyard Haven Library will host an author talk with Jan Brogan, whose latest book, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race and Boston’s Struggle for Justice, was shortlisted for both an Agatha award and an Anthony for the best non-fiction of 2021. This event will be held on the upper level of the library with refreshments provided by the Friends of the Library.
The Combat Zone explores the circumstances and aftermath of the 1976 murder of Harvard football player Andrew Puopolo in Boston’s infamous “Combat Zone.” With nearly opposite verdicts, the impact of the two trials that followed reverberated across both the city of Boston and the criminal justice system. The book also explores survivor grief, the offers the Puopolo family received to have the three Black defendants “whacked” in prison by the mob, and the fine line between justice and revenge.
Jan Brogan has been a journalist for over thirty years, during which time she worked as a correspondent for the Boston Globe and a staff writer for both the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is also the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy, A Confidential Source, Yesterday’s Fatal and Teaser. Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman of Transactional Pictures have purchased the rights to A Confidential Source for development. Brogan continues to work as a novelist and a journalist. She teaches journalism at the Boston University Summer Journalism Academy, and memoir writing at an annual retreat in Provence. She lives with her husband in Dedham and Edgartown, Massachusetts.
For more information, please call the library at (508) 696-4211 or send an email to vhpl_programs@clamsnet.org.
Praise for The Combat Zone:
“The careful, meticulous research, the compassionate yet balanced tone, and the compelling narrative thrust make this book read almost like a legal or crime thriller. Brogan does a superb job of untangling this complex case.” –Stephanie Schorow, author of Inside the Combat Zone, The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood.
“Brogan’s work brings us into heart-wrenching, jaw-dropping contact with the reality of the crime and its times. It’s the best form of narrative nonfiction, in that it covers race, class, busing, criminal justice reform and courtroom drama, but never strays far from the emotional reality of the case for both victims and defendants.” –Craig Sandler, Statehouse News
“Brogan’s background as a journalist shows in her careful reporting and historical context…The grim history of racism in Boston, the crime and corruption of the Combat Zone, and the legal permutations of the case take up the bulk of the book. But its heart lies in a character who wasn’t even in the Combat Zone that fateful night – the victim’s brother, Danny Puopolo.” –Andy Smith: Special to the Providence Journal, USA TODAY NETWORK.
“A great strength of Brogan’s book is the broad context that she provides—one of overlapping divisions of race, class, and geography—to make sense of how the legal proceedings unfolded…Brogan writes with empathy for all involved in the events she so capably explores surrounding Puopolo’s death. In doing so, she considers matters of trauma and justice as well as the rights of victims and those of the accused.” –Joseph Nevins, Dig Boston
“In her new book The Combat Zone, author Jan Brogan handles the knotty details of this saga — including its unexpectedly far-reaching consequences — with the expertise and acuity of a veteran journalist and author of four mystery novels. Her first nonfiction book is more than simply a captivating exposition of the legal proceedings and adjacent matters. It is an incisive, vivid, jarring, and meticulous account of — as the subtitle says — “murder, race, and Boston’s struggle for justice,” –Blake Maddux, The Arts Fuse
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