Author: KDesantis
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.
Beginning computer classes for senior citizens will once again be offered thanks to a grant from The Washington County Home for Aged Women and additional funding from the Friends of the Library. Barbara Young will teach six 1 1/2 hour sessions beginning May9. Sign up now to get a place in the class. The class size is limited to eight people.
May 7 ~ Pat O ~ bikes May 14 ~ Colleen ~ socks May 21 ~ Mary Lou ~music May 28 ~Robyn ~ gardening
We will make an assortment of cards for senior citizens to have on hand for special occasions: Birthday cards Thank you Cards Anniversary Cards Get Well Cards etc Please join us if you would like to contribute cards.
Earlier this week, the Pulitzer prize for fiction went to “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf). Back in 2007, One-Minute Book Reviews’ Janice Harayda put up a list of 10 great novels that didn’t win and which books beat them. Among the losers: Main Street, The Great Gatsby and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Other losers and the books that defeated them appears here.
It is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Many new books are being written and others being re-published to take advantage of people’s interest in this period of American history. So far, two of the new books have been added to the Pember collection and a third is on the way: Father Abraham : Lincoln and his sons by Harold Holzer. Publisher’s description: Abraham Lincoln was devoted to his country — and to his family. President …
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.