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The Dahl family May 12

The adventures of the Dahl family continues… It’s story time in the Museum which offers a small table with children’s book for reading. Marie and Ella joined up with a Scarlet Macaw puppet to read Help the Animals of South America. They both agree that Spider Monkeys are cute. What other monkeys can be found in South America? Visit our online collection to view this primate – https://pember.pastperfectonline.com/…/4199F7CF-FE88-4FDC-A…

The Dahl family May 11

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family This is Alice Merrill. She’s still in high school back in Grinnell. She works part-time at “Lil’ Miss Chic Boutique” and is saving her money to go to college to become a journalist. She belongs to the newspaper club at school, likes to go camping and is teaching herself to crochet. She tells me that all her life people have been saying she looks just like Ariel. She doesn’t see the resemblance. What …

The Dahl family May 10

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family The Dahl family and their cousins wish they could be home to celebrate Mother’s Day as they usually do but, with the many social limitations of this pandemic, they decided to do a Zoom call to their moms in Iowa. Many of us will need to do the same and plan times in the future when we get together safely with our families. In the meantime, share here what you plan to do …

The Dahl family May 9

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family Ruth and David have been playing chess against each other for years. They are pretty evenly matched. They really like our glass chess set but wonder why we don’t have a 3D set. Marie is very proud of the little bench she built using our Keva Planks. Grace and Eliza never get tired of playing Connect 4. These are just some of the games available at the Pember.

The Dahl family May 8

The adventures of the Dahl family continues… If you have visited the Museum, then you know that there’s no “monkeying” around in there, but that didn’t stop David! Poor Lemur. Oh by the way, a Lemur is not a monkey. Lemurs are prosimians. Whoa!

The Dahl family May 7

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family Look guys! These books are written by Roald Dahl. Didn’t Grammy say we were related somehow to this guy? Like fourth cousin two times removed, whatever that means? I just love Charlie & the Chocolate Factory! Did you know that you can access genealogy information on Ancestry.com from the computers here in the library? I’ll show you how when we are able to reopen. HeritageQuest is available from home using your library card. See this …

The Dahl family May 6

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family… Marie visited the Museum today and exclaimed “Oh my, what big teeth you have!” Wait Marie, It’s NOT the Big Bad Wolf, it’s a Grizzly Bear! (skull and fur) What is a Grizzly Bear? Well, the Grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis) is a subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America. It is also known as the North American brown bear. Brown bears have a muscular hump on their shoulders while the black bear doesn’t. …

The Dahl family May 5

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family… Ella loves horses.She wondered if Grandpa Mike had horses? We couldn’t really find any information either way on that but we found these pictures in our local history section. Here’s Ella inspecting the photo of William Hicks, a blacksmith with a shop on Church Street. Also from the Morris Rote-Rosen collection of photographs was this picture of a group of Granville folks at the horse races at the Cambridge fair. There’s Bert Braymer, …

The Dahl Family May 4

The continuing saga of the Dahl family Ruth reminded me that today is Star Wars day. She told me the story of going to the drive-in when she was attending the University of Iowa in 1977. She said “I can’t tell you how fun it was watching Skywalker blow up the Death Star on a big screen under a sky full of glittering stars!”So we had a showing of the original Star Wars movie this morning and I boasted about …

The Dahl family May 3

The continuing saga of the Dahl family at the Pember Ruth disappeared for a while and I finally found her out near our tower garden. I’m still not sure how she opened the door to the elevator area. Maybe Lucy helped her? Anyway, she was smelling the wonderful basil we have and complaining about not having a caprese salad for a long time. We have arugula, bibb lettuce, some basil, swiss chard, and a few other greens growing here. It …

The Dahl family May 2

The continuing saga of the Dahl family at the Pember Grace works at the Grinnell-Newburg CSD. She is the advisor for their yearbook committee so she was interested in looking through the Blue & Gold we have available at the Pember. We have yearbooks from 1948 through 2013 missing only 2001 and 2004. Grace asked me to show her the 1948 yearbook to see how much had changed in 70+ years. We love this page with the collage. Is that …