In-person 5k Results; Virtual 5k continues to 9/30/22!

Congratulations to Carson Rickey and Cynthia Chau from Golden Colorado, the top finishers in the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library in-person 5k on Sunday September 25th! This was the 25th year for this annual event and the first in-person event since 2019 (the 5k was held virtually in 2020 and 2021.)

This year's 5k was a hybrid event, and "Virtual" 5k runners and walkers have until September 30th to register and enter results online at https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/VineyardHaven/VineyardHavenLibrary5kRunWalktotheChop

Registration for the virtual event is $25. All registered participants, both in-person and virtual, will be entered into a raffle drawing at the end of the month. 

NATALIE LOZANO & ADAM KIEVMAN ARE THE WINNERS OF THE RAFFLE 9/30/22!

Complete results for in-person participants are below:

1 323 Rickey, Carson M34 Golden, CO 18:23.00

2 333 Nannes, Cal M37 Vineyard Haven, MA 19:52.00

3 305 Chau, Cynthia W31 Golden, CO 23:12.00

4 307 Ganaway, Aaron M57 New York, NY 24:23.00

5 304 Bowen-Kievman, Shannon W49 Manchester, CT 25:07.00

6 324 Segundo, Nyder M42 Oak Bluffs, MA 25:25.00

7 313 Kievman, Adam M48 Manchester, CT 26:06.00

8 314 Kolev, Dinyo M52 Vineyard Haven, MA 28:31.00

9 322 Rich, Henry M9 Arlington, MA 28:38.00

10 326 Sullivan, Ellen W47 Arlington, MA 28:40.00

11 335 Nolan, Diane W57 West Tisbury, MA 29:11.00

12 301 Aprea, Allan M60 Chatham, NJ 29:56.00

13 329 Goldfarb, Steven M62 New York, NY 30:08.00

14 328 Wild, Kristin W53 Potomac Falls, VA 30:24.00

15 321 Read, Katherine W61 Waban, MA 32:30.03

16 312 Houston, John M67 Waban, MA 32:30.57

17 327 Tarnawsky, Nina W32 Sherman Oaks, CA 33:45.00

18 302 Austin, Jim M80 Vineyard Haven, MA 33:53.22

19 308 Gerosa-Beal, Brenda W71 Hingham, MA 33:53.78

20 316 Mulvey, Jim M60 Stirling, NJ 34:08.00

21 318 Nevens, Drew M12 Plymouth, MA 44:52.00

22 319 Nevens, Kari W40 Plymouth, MA 44:58.00

23 311 Graham, Hali W29 Plymouth, MA 45:11.00

24 306 Drude, Meg W68 Plymouth, MA 45:56.00

25 309 Gershun, Anna W8 Scarsdale, NY 47:47.00

26 315 Markov, Sergey M42 Scarsdale, NY 47:48.00

27 334 Smith, Susan W65 Vineyard Haven, MA 49:29.00

28 332 Collins Sullivan, Jane W75 Arlington, MA 50:07.00

29 325 Street, Pamela W75 Vineyard Haven, MA 50:08.00

30 331 Gersh, Michelle W59 Vineyard Haven, MA 50:19.00

31 330 Goldfarb, Stacy W61 Vineyard Haven, MA 50:19.00

Falmouth Genealogical Society Zoom Class Series in October

Vineyard Haven Library Patrons are invited to participate in a special series of presentations from the Falmouth Genealogical Society and the Falmouth Library via Zoom -- attend any or all! Register at falmouthpubliclibrary.org/events.

Falmouth Genealogical Society, Instructor: Tim Martin and Ralph Wadleigh, Format: Lecture, hybrid (in-person with a Zoom option) Register for any or for all! You only need to register once, at the first week, or whatever week you join. Register for week 1 by clicking here-for late weeks, go to that date on falmouthpubliclibrary.org/events.

4 Thursdays from 7-8 PM

Oct.  6th  : “Overview of Genealogy” – an amazing cooperative effort!
Oct. 13th : “Researching Sources”  – introduction to online & offline resources.
Oct. 20th : “Building Your Family Tree”- and applying to lineage societies.​
​Oct. 27th : “Genetic Genealogy” – consumer DNA companies & interpreting the results.

The sessions can be attended in person in the Hermann Foundation Room at Falmouth Library, or by Zoom. The Zoom links for each session will be emailed upon registration.

Save the Date! Friends Fabric & Yarn Sale Saturday October 15th!

Save the date! The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library will hold a Fiber and Fabric Sale to benefit the library on Saturday, October 15th from 10:30am to 3:30pm. Yarns, fabrics, and needles will be available at bargain prices. Sale will continue on Sunday October 16th at 1pm if materials last. Proceeds benefit library services and programs supported by the Friends, including Adult Crafts, Museum Passes, and the Summer Reading Program.

Your donations of fabric and yarns for the sale will be accepted at the library from Tuesday, October 4th through Thursday, October 13th, during regular library hours.

The Friends welcome new members and volunteers! For more info visit https://vhlibrary.org/libraryfriends.shtml 

Register For "A Century of American Short Stories" with Phil Weinstein

Register for the series

Philip Weinstein, the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College, will present a six-part seminar discussing short story collections from six American writers. Programs will be held online via Zoom on six Wednesday evenings from 6pm - 7:30pm, beginning November 16th. Prior to the first class, registered participants will receive a welcome email with Zoom access information and a reading guide. 

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To go from Ernest Hemingway to Elizabeth Strout is not quite 100 years, but it is certainly enough time for us to come to grips with how brilliantly American writers have deployed the shorter form.  We begin with two "masters"--Hemingway (In Our Time, 1925) and Faulkner (a selection of his finest stories, written in the 1930s).  Everyone who comes after them is affected, one way or another, by the power of their work. But, while Raymond Carver's reputation is founded on his Hemingway-like tautness, you would never confuse his Cathedral (1981) with anything by Hemingway. 

Thereafter we shall read Louise Erdrich's 1st great collection of stories, Love Medicine (1984).  Our final pair of writers--Edward P. Jones (All Aunt Hagar's Children, 2006) and Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge, 2008)--take us into our current century; their careers, like Erdrich's, are still underway.

These readings are neither unduly lengthy nor unduly difficult.  You will get in easily enough; my aim is to help you get in as deeply as possible.  To that end, we will devote a separate session to each writer, so that you might come away with a finer sense of each one's typical syntax, lexicon, concerns, obsessions... I want you to turn them into your familiars--voices whose timbre and resonance will stay with you long after this course. 

We will be alert, as well, to the larger "story of America" that they are each engaged in telling.  Inevitably, such stories touch on dramas of race and gender and class--of black and white and red, of violence abroad and at home--that give America's past century its unpacifiable power to disturb.

Dates and reading assignments:

Wednesday November 16th: Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

Wednesday November 30th: Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

Wednesday December 14th Raymond Carver, Cathedral

Wednesday January 11th: Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

Wednesday January 25th: Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children

Wednesday February 8th:  Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

Philip M. Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College. His numerous publications include Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), and Becoming Faulkner (2009). His newest book is a collection of essays entitled Soul-Error, published in May 2022. Professor Weinstein has been offering literary seminars in cooperation with the Vineyard Haven Public Library since 2012, and is the Honorary Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign for Vineyard Haven Library's expansion and renovation project.

Register for the series

Films of Alfred Hitchcock Virtual Event September 27th

[Online] 7 pm Tuesday, September 27th
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock with Brian Rose

Join us online for a Virtual Presentation with Brian Rose, Professor Emeritus, Fordham University. Sponsored by the Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, and Chilmark Libraries. Contact your local library for the Zoom access, or for more information.

Alfred Hitchcock is probably the most famous film director who ever lived. For five decades, first in England, then in Hollywood, he made fifty-four films, including classics such as The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Psycho. Few filmmakers have been as popular, critically celebrated, and as influential, not only as a director but also as a multi-media showman through his television series, magazines, book anthologies, even extending to board games and record albums. This presentation looks at his achievements as “the master of suspense,” and through dozens of film clips, examines his extraordinary creativity as one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers.

Brian Rose is a retired college professor who for the last decade has been presenting talks on film and TV history to libraries and community organizations. He is a professor emeritus at Fordham University, where he taught for 38 years in the Department of Communication and Media Studies. He’s written several books on television history and cultural programming, and conducted more than a hundred Q&A’s with leading directors, actors, and writers for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Directors Guild of America.

Pre-event at Oak Bluffs Library On Tuesday September 20th at 6pm OBPL will host an in-person screening of North by Northwest, a 1959 American spy thriller produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. 

Stream at Home Several of Hitchcock's films can also be viewed online for free through the library's Kanopy service, including Dial M for Murder, Foreign Correspondent, and The Lady Vanishes.