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Join us July 22 at 6PM when Vet Tech Jodie Prouty tells us what her job is all about!

Join us Wednesday, July 8 at 6PM for the next in our “Community Heroes” series. Mike Pietryka, a retired US Navy pilot, will talk about his career.

Our first “Community Heroes” presentation will be tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1 at 6PM. A member of the Washington County Sheriff’s office will be here to describe what they do. He will be bringing a K-9 officer!

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Friday of July at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.

The book club will be reading the Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Goodreads.com says:

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction — into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist — but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.

Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who — born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution — bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.

Every Hero has a Story

June 20, Kick-Off 11:00 – 1:00

July 11, 11:00 -12:00

July 18, 11:00 12:00

July 25, 11:00 12:00

August 8, party 12:00-1:00

New researchers tend to hit a dead end, which discourage them to the point where many of them give up. In this course, Kathleen will solve (or explain how researchers can solve) these problems for them. As Kathleen solves each problem, the entire class will learn how to handle it when they hit it.