Quilling with Pat O May 11 & 25
Two Wednesdays each month,  6-8PM 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.  
Pember Board Meeting
April 21 6PM A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.
Star Wars Week at the Pember
April 30, Saturday 11:00 AM Star Wars Stories and Crafts for 4-9 year-olds ~  Hear stories about Luke, Leia, and Han, make R2-D2 craft and color some Star Wars pages. May 3, Tuesday, 3:30 PM:  Make your own light saber for adults and school age kids! Learn to wield the light saber keeping a Storm Trooper balloon off the floor. Learn about the Origami Yoda series by Tom Angleberger. May 4, Wednesday 5-8:00 PM Star Wars Day ~ May the …
Quilling April 13 & 20, 6PM
Two Wednesdays each month,  6-8PM 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.
Advance Directives Your Voice…Your Choice….Your Decisions… April 6
April 6, 6PM Decisions about how we would like to live and be cared for, particularly at the end of life, are some of the most personal, and in certain instances, the most difficult decisions we may ever have to make. By completing Advance Directives each of us has the unique opportunity not only to identify our wishes for care that we may or may not want to receive, but also to designate an individual to speak for us in …
Book Club ~ April 12
The Pember Book Club will be reading “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” by Daniyal Mueenuddin April 12 1:oo PM. From GoodReads: In the spirit of Joyce’s Dubliners and Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches, Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in the countryside outside of Lahore, Pakistan. An aging feudal landlord’s household staff, the villagers who depend on his …
Bags, Buttons & Bows
Please join us at the Pember on Saturday April 23 starting at 4PM for our Bags, Buttons & Bows fundraiser. We’ve all done it: bought that perfect handbag, scarf, or piece of costume jewelry. And there it sits, years later, still in your closet with the tags on. Donate these lost items to the Pember. We’ll accept handbags and other accessories in good condition (no shoes or clothing please). Donations will be accepted until April 20. Then on Saturday, April …
March First Friday
The Pember Library and Museum invites members of the community to participate in its March 4th First Friday, which will be a collaborative show of creative work in various media from the hands of patrons. There is open call for the public to participate with one or several works of art or crafted items. To date, twelve exhibitors are signed on to showcase everything from jewelry to paw prints: The Pember Quillers, Pember “A Good Yarn” Crafters, crocheted items by …
Saturday Story Time
Join Holly for toddler & preschool story time and activities   March 5 ~ Turtles March 19 ~ Ducks April 2 ~ Dinosaurs! April 16 ~ Rainy Days May 14 ~ Trucks May 28 ~ Bugs
Mapping Granville, a Community Storytelling Workshop
MARCH 8, 3PM In continuing our effort to revitalize Main Street, our next workshop is one which all those who want to reminisce about the past will enjoy. Memories are important even if the complexion of Main Street will never be that again.  Scholar Anne Mosher will lead a program entitled “Mapping Granville Memories: A Community Storytelling Workshop” at 3 PM, March 8, at the Pember, 33 West Main Street in Granville. Buildings, street corners, schools, churches, parks and trees; …
Book Club reading “Russian Roulette”
March 8, 1:00PM In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II—a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes — starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia whose mission was to stop …