Events – Pember Library

First Friday

Watercolors, Fly-tying and Bluegrass at Pember May First Friday What could be better than having a self-described lover of the Pember Museum of Natural History as featured artist for May First Friday? Jean Mackay, who is a serious watercolor artist of natural subjects, is returning to First Friday with new works of birds, insects, and other beings from the natural world. Jean has used the Pember’s collection of natural specimens as resource material for her paintings on numerous occasions, …

Book Club

The book club will be reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. From Goodreads : From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in …