Events – Pember Library

Book Club

The book club’s choice for February is Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi. Kirkus Reviews says: “n entertaining 21st-century variant on the classic adventure tale. Characterizations are brisk and vivid, as the story whips along toward a violent climax with a nice surprise twist…. Girardi pits the French Foreign Legion against Muslim fanatics. Since Louis Philippe founded the Legion in 1831, its lost-soul volunteers fight in the most desolate corners of the globe mostly because they have nothing better to do …

Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate

Love Chocolate and have a recipe that you consider a winner? Do you serve a dessert that makes all your friends rave as they ask for seconds and thirds? Then this is your opportunity to enter your special creation in The Friends of the Pember Library’s Second Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Contest. The contest will be held at the Pember Library, 33 West Main Street, in Granville on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM. Prizes will be awarded in the following …

January Story Time

Fireside Stories January 7 ~ Glasses January 14 ~ Popcorn January 21 ~ Snow January 28 ~ Soup *Themes subject to change

Quilling Class

Pat O will teach us more quilling or feel free to join us if you have a project you are working on and just like to chat while you are crafting. Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. Beginners welcome. For information, call 518-642-2525.

Pember Board Meeting

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.

Book Club

Join us as the Pember book club discusses Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. A 2014 movie is planned based on this book. Amazon book description: Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: “Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana”) is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but …