CHILMARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
July Newsletter

SUMMER HOURS
SUNDAY: CLOSED
MONDAY: 10:30-1:30*
TUESDAY: 10:30 - 5:00
WEDNESDAY: 10:30 - 6:00
THURSDAY: 10:30 - 5:00
FRIDAY: 10:30 - 1:30
SATURDAY: 10:30 - 5:00
June 26-August 21
We will be closed July 3 and 4 in observance of Independence Day.

How to log into the new Aspen catalog:

When you log into your CLAMS account, you will need to know the last four digits of your phone number in order to log in. Please call 508-645-3360 to confirm your phone number on file. You will also need to know your 13-digit library card id number (located under the barcode on your card.) If you don’t know the number on file call 508-645-3360 and we will give you your id number.

Once you are logged in, you will receive an email verification. If you don’t have an email call 508-645-3360 and we can verify for you. You will be locked out of Libby, Kanopy, and other eResources. Once you are logged back into your CLAMS account you will be able to get back into your eResource accounts. You will not lose your status or any items within the pages.

New Adult Programs

Summer Music at the Chilmark Library.

Join us out on our patio for afternoons of music in July and August. (Johhnny Hoy will be performing at The Yard.). Limited seating is available, so bring a beach chair and a picnic.

Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. Free. [email protected] for more information. 508-645-3360

Saturday, July 1 at 4:00: Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals with Thomas Dresser.

The Roaring Twenties were filled with a range of events, experiences, fears, laws and advances that affected Martha’s Vineyard.  Island residents were involved in rumrunning.  Dozens died of the Spanish flu.  Women voted on Island.  Dorothy West joined the Harlem Renaissance.  Immigration from the Azores slowed, and airplanes landed in Katama.  Tourism blossomed and business boomed.  Local author Thomas Dresser shares the back story and the import of this remarkable decade and how it has shaped Vineyarders to this day.
Tom drove school and tour buses on Martha’s Vineyard for a number of years.  Now he writes books on Vineyard history.  Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties is his 15th book, and one of the most exciting to research and write.
Email [email protected] for more information.
Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360

Wednesday, July 5 at 5:00: Peter Halperin, guitarist extraordinaire. Patio Music at the Chilmark Library

Peter Halperin has been a professional musician and songwriter since he was young. In the 1970s, Halperin was part of the folk scene, and by the time he was 17 years old, he was playing in clubs like Folk City and the Gaslight in New York City. “I’ve always been kind of a folk, country-blues, and blues musician, and my songwriting tends to head in that direction as well. I also like gospel.” Eventually, Halperin went to school and became a psychiatrist, but his love for music never dimmed. Bring your dancing shoes!

Email [email protected] for more information.
Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360.

Saturday, July 8, 11:00 am: Ask a Muslim Anything With Robert Azzi
 
This is a program, developed by Robert Azzi, to create safe and open spaces for people to listen to his experience as a Muslim in America, the religion of Islam and its history, and ask any questions they have. Robert Azzi speaks not as a scholar or academic but as neighbor, fellow citizen, person of faith. Azzi has been traveling throughout New Hampshire and beyond – as far west as Wyoming – at the invitation of local communities to speak about his life, what it’s like to be Muslim in America, how he came to convert to Islam, about the religion of Islam and its history – especially in America – and about the Middle East, terrorism and associated political and social issues. 
Join us for an open, compassionate conversation. Nothing is off the table except rudeness and disrespect. 
No pre-registration is required. Email [email protected] for more information.
Sponsored by the Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven and Chilmark Libraries.

Tuesday, July 11, 6:30-7:30 PM: Chilmark Summer Dance Party at the Yard with Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish.

They’re back! Join The Yard and the Chilmark Library for a free night of outdoor music and dancing with everyone’s favorite band. Bring a picnic, or just come for the show, but be sure to wear your dancing shoes!

Weather contingent. Bring your own seating. Parking at The Yard is limited to handicapped spots: parking is available at the Chilmark Library and other places around Beetlebung Corner. Picnicking is welcomed, but please carry-in, carry-out. Sponsored by The Yard and Chilmark Library.

Call 508-645-3360 for more information. 

Wednesday, July 12, at 5:00: WHAT BEN FRANKLIN WOULD HAVE TOLD ME, author talk with Donna Gordon.
 
WHAT BEN FRANKLIN WOULD HAVE TOLD ME explores the story of Lee, a vibrant thirteen-year-old boy who is facing premature death from Progeria (a premature aging disease). On his "final wish" trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia to pursue his interest in the life of Ben Franklin with his caretaker Toma?s, a survivor of Argentina’s Dirty War, one of them flees memories of death and the other hurtles inevitably toward it. Set during the Ronald Reagan presidency, this lyrical novel transcends an adventure story to take the reader on an unforgettable journey that explores love, family and the inevitability of change.

Donna Gordon is a fiction writer and visual artist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Brown, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a PEN Discovery, and Ploughshares Discovery. She received the 2018 New Letters Publication Award for What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, which received a starred Kirkus review.
Email [email protected] for more information.
Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360.

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