{"id":9065,"date":"2026-06-13T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=9065"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:40:59","slug":"book-talk-with-thomas-dresser-historic-storms-of-marthas-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/book-talk-with-thomas-dresser-historic-storms-of-marthas-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Thomas Dresser\u2019s Historic Storms of Martha\u2019s Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local author Thomas Dresser will discuss his newly released book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historic Storms of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the pu<\/span>blic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy new book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historic Storms of Martha\u2019s Vineyard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chronicles the worst storms in recorded Vineyard history.\u00a0 As we learn about major storms, we appreciate the good weather when it is here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m looking forward to sharing stories I\u2019ve found in the history of Vineyard storms. The worst of the worst happened in 1635, before the first white man set foot on the Vineyard. I trace the chronology of storms through the years, taking note of the year without a summer, the devastating Portland gale, and August gales (before they were called hurricanes).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the more recent era, I spoke with a fellow who was in the 1938 Hurricane. I also have a letter recounting the devastation wrought in that storm and an amusing tale from Hurricane Edna in 1954.\u00a0 Many Islanders shared their memories of Hurricane Bob in 1991. I welcome audience recollections as we discuss these cataclysmic storms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local author Thomas Dresser will discuss his newly released book, Historic Storms of Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public. \u201cMy new book, Historic Storms of Martha\u2019s Vineyard chronicles the worst storms in recorded Vineyard history.\u00a0 As we learn about major storms, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-9065","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}