KDesantis 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 … Read more
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 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
This is Eliza and Hannah Dahl and their brother David, home on leave. They are visiting here from Grinnell, Iowa. Michael Dahl, their grandfather, grew up here in Granville. There was quite a large farm somewhere on the outskirts and they have some questions about exactly where it might have been or if we might … Read more
You can keep track of summer reading online by going to this page. If you prefer to keep track on paper, use these paper logs: Have fun reading. If you need help with the summer reading webpage, let me know.
We have advanced the due dates on all of the items that were due between 3/16/2020 and 5/1/2020 to 6/15/2020. There will be no fines! Keep your items until we tell you it is safe to return them Thanks so much!