Month: March 2014

New Kid’s/Teen eContent Website

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The SALON eContent website has expanded its services with a new digital collection website experience just for kids / teens. The main digital collection, http://salon.sals.edu, now has a separate site to provide a safe and easy browsing experience for kids / teens.

This appealing and user-friendly page contains eBooks and audiobooks. Browsing can be done by subject, reading level or interest level. Check this page out now.

The Kid’s /Teen Collection site filters the overall digital collection to just show Children’s and Young Adult content, which gets kids / teens to the titles they want faster! This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free for users with a library card. Digital titles are available anytime, anywhere and expire automatically, so no need to worry about late fees.

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Quilling

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SDC10368
Quilled Chess Pieces

Every Wednesday at 1:00 PM at the Pember Library 33 West Main, Granville: Pat Oathout will teach quilling. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. For information, call 518-642-2525.

Quilling for tomorrow Cancelled

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Sorry, we need to cancel for tomorrow. Come back next Wednesday.

Every Wednesday at 1:00 PM at the Pember Library 33 West Main, Granville: Pat Oathout will teach quilling. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. For information, call 518-642-2525.

Never-ending Winter

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Sorry, we will be closed again today.

Again, fines will be waived if they occur because of this closure.
Thank you for your patience. I hope you have something to read!

Pember Presents “Grandparents and Gravestones”

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Peggy Jenks' cemetery books at the Pember
Peggy Jenks’ cemetery books at the Pember

Join us at the Pember Library, 33 West Main St, Granville, on Monday, March 24 at 6:30 PM for a meeting of the Granville Historical Society. There will be light refreshments.

Starting at 7:00 PM, Peggy Jenks will give a talk and slide show about Grandparents and Gravestones, using cemetery stones as part of your genealogical research.
Peggy has been a family genealogist since 1964 and a cemetery transcriber since 1978. She has published award-winning books listing all the cemetery inscriptions of the twenty-seven towns in Rutland County, Vermont, and of Granville, Washington County, New York…over 225 cemeteries in all. Peggy’s other publications include several volumes of probate records and family histories.

March First Friday

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Portrait Madness
At March First Friday
7-9 PM, Friday, March 7
FREE EVENT
Profile – front and center! Lights, camera, paintbrush! First Friday at The Pember in Granville will be portrait time, with painted and photographic portraits of artists Gigi Zeitler and George Bouret on display. Be sure to smile and bring your best face…
Oil portrait artist Gigi Zeitler has a B.A. in art from Douglass College, Rutgers University and continued her education at Parsons School of Design and the Graduate School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She studied under portrait artist Paul McCormack for over five years and has done workshops at the Woodstock School of Art with portrait artist Lois Woolley and contemporary master HongNian Zhang.
Documentary photographer George Bouret graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  Working freelance for nearly thirty years, George specializes in portrait, fashion and architectural work. He recently concluded a two-year commission photographing the construction of a new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He will be showing “Portraits at the Fair”.
Salem Artist Ruthanne Hunter specializes in glass bead making in the great underground tradition of lampworking – where the bead is made in an open flame. The beads are then formed into wearable jewelry.
Crackers, Crepes & Crisps  of Dorset will be providing food.
Nearby, the Slate Valley Museum will host An Irish First Friday with live, traditional Irish music, Irish artifacts and munchies.
First Friday is the first Friday of every month. Hours are always 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Pember Library & Museum 33 West Main Street, Granville, NY. Tel 518-642-1515 http://www.pembermuseum.com
Slate Valley Museum 17 Water Street, Granville, NY. Tel 518- 642-1417
http://www.slatevalleymuseum.org