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Annual dinner and auction

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The Pember Library and Museum will hold its Annual Dinner on Monday, September 26 at the Organ Barn on North Grimes Hill Road in Hebron.

The Pember Board of Trustees arranges the dinner to raise funds for the general support of the Pember Library and Museum of Natural History. There are many wonderful programs and activities for adults and children at the Pember. There is a fantastic collection of approximately 7,000 objects in the museum, covering a wide variety of natural history subjects and approximately 21,000 books in the library collection including over 2,000 DVDs.

The dinner will be catered by Edward’s Market. Choices for the main course are prime rib, chicken bruschetta or crabmeat-stuffed flounder. There will also be a silent auction, featuring gift certificates, jewelry, sampler baskets, arts and crafts pieces, and more.

The cost of the dinner is $50 per person or $90 per couple. The silent auction and cocktails begin at 6 p.m. with the dinner following at 7:00 p.m. Music will be by Moose Crossing.

Reservations are required by September 21. For information regarding reservations contact the museum at 518-642-1515. Auction items are described with photos on the library facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/PemberLibrary/

Thank you to the community for your support.

Shopping Matters

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FDA_Nutrition_Facts_Label_2006Join us at the Pember Library for an informational program on how to read nutritional labels, pricing labels and ingredient labels while you’re shopping. Linda Law-Saunders from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Washington County will lead the discussion on August 17 at 5PM.

Pember Board Meeting

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August 18 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.

New Deal Book Club at the Slate Valley Museum August 31, 7 PM

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Meet at the Slate Valley Museum August 31 at 7PM

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America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal

By Michael Golay

from goodreads:

The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.

“All I can say is that these people have GOT to have clothing—RIGHT AWAY,” Lorena Hickok wrote from drought-ravaged North Dakota in 1933. The cigar-smoking, poker-playing Hickok was the top woman news reporter of the day, and the intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. Forced to abandon her thriving journalism career due to her closeness to the First Lady, Hickok was hired by FDR’s right hand man Harry Hopkins to embark upon a grueling journey to the hardest hit areas across the country, during the harshest year of the Great Depression, to report back about the degree of devastation.

Acclaimed historian Michael Golay draws on a trove of previously untapped original sources—including the moving and remarkably intimate almost daily letters between Hickok and Eleanor—to re-create that extraordinary journey, never before profiled. Hickok traveled almost nonstop for eighteen months, from January 1933 to August 1934—moving into the White House, to a room adjoining Eleanor’s for her stays in between—driving through hellish dust storms, armed rebellion by coal workers in West Virginia, and a near revolution by Midwest farmers, writing a series of deeply empathetic and searing reports to Hopkins and letters to Eleanor that constitute an unparalleled record of the worst economic crisis ever to afflict the country, and which profoundly influenced the nature of the FDR’s unprecedented relief efforts. This beautifully written account brings reveals at last Hickok’s pivotal contribution, as well as shedding important new light on her intense but ill-fated relationship with Eleanor and the forces that inevitably came between them.