The Pember Library and Museum Board of Trustees will be holding a board meeting on Sunday Feb 2, 2014 at 1pm in the Pember Library
33 West Main St Granville, NY 12832
The Board would welcome your attendance.
Month: January 2014
New Pember Volunteer
On January 25th at 10:30 the Pember Library welcomed 
a new volunteer. Lilly is a certified therapy dog with Therapy Dogs International. Lilly will be visiting the library monthly to provide a companionable audience for children to read with. Children of all ages and reading levels are encouraged to come down and pick out their favorite book to read to her. Lilly has recently been working with an adult population, but she loves kids! We are excited to start working with her and think that she will prove to be that nonjudgmental audience that some readers need to truly enjoy reading.
Book Club
The next selection for the Pember Book Club is Emily Dickinson, her letter to the world by Polly Longsworth 
KIRKUS REVIEW says:
Emily Dickinson is a personality with a special attraction for adolescents. Her poems require little experience to scan, and once read retain their fascination by the elusive inscrutability of the message coupled with the simplicity of the images. Her own life enhances this interest. She was a woman who never seems to have grown old, and the mystery of her seclusion is totally romantic. Despite the absence of any specifically juvenile biographis of Emily Dickinson, teenagers are probably more familiar with the framework of her life than they are with many poets who have been popularized for the young. To fill the gap, if there truly is one, the author has managed very well in overcoming the difficulties involved. The thesis is that “”Emily Dickinson’s `letter to the world'”” was “”a testimonial of rejoicing to that incredible quality called life.”” Just how she bridged the paradox of her voluntary separation from the world to a concentration on the essences of life leads to endless speculation, and in this book theorizing has necessarily been limited. The way is left open, however, for readers to continue wondering. The known influences have been fairly presented here — her family ties, the people she looked to for guidance, the two men that she clearly fell in love with, her Boston upbringing, her education, her religious struggles. The book is smoothly written and very readable. Her poetry is excerpted where it is illustrative of the life of the poet; it is not analyzed separately. The only drawback to the otherwise meticulously careful narrative is the occasional dramatization of events that could have been portrayed by quoting letters.
Tax Forms
NY State Tax forms: http://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/ to get all NYS forms ($.25 per page if you use our printers and ink).
Federal tax forms can be downloaded them from the internet, ($.25 per page if you use our printers and ink). Go to http://www.irs.gov/Forms-&-Pubs where you can access and acquire both electronic and print media.
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
from GoodReads:
The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupary and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
Closed
The Pember Library will be closed today because of the winter storm.