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.
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The Pember Book Club will not meet for March. The book they chose for April is The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Publisher’s Weekly reviewed The Paris Wife: McLain … offers a vivid addition to the complex-woman-behind-the-legendary-man genre, bringing Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, to life. Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by the brash “beautiful boy,” and after a brief courtship and small wedding, Hadley and Ernest take off for Paris, “the place …
Will March go out like a lamb or a lion? Regardless of the weather, the Friends of the Pember Library will hold their annual Spring Paperback Book Sale on Saturday, March 31st at the Pember Library on West Main Street in Granville. The sale will begin at 10:00 am and conclude at 2:00 pm. An excellent selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s titles will be available at low, low prices. Books will be priced at just $.25 from 10:00 am …
March 3 ~ Dr Seuss March 10 ~Lions March 17 ~ Learn with Linda: St Patrick’s Day March 24 ~ Let’s get moving! March 31 ~ sorry, no story time because of the Friend’s paperback book sale
Beginning computer classes for senior citizens (over age 55) will once again be offered thanks to a grant from The Washington County Home for Aged Women. Barbara Young will teach six 1 1/2 hour sessions (Wednesdays and Fridays for three weeks) beginning March 14. Pre-registration is required. Sign up now to get a place in the class. The class size is limited to six people. Advanced beginner classes will be offered April 4, 6, 11 & 13. Then we will …
February 4 ~ Alphabet books February 11 ~ Learn with Linda – Valentine crafts, stories, snacks, & more! February 18 ~ Presidents February 25 ~ Manners
Pat O will teach us more quilling or feel free to join us if you have a project you are working on and just like to chat while you are crafting. Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. Beginners welcome. For information, call 518-642-2525.
Are you one of the lucky ones who got an eReader for Christmas? We will try to help you figure it out and show you how to use SALON, the Southern Adirondack Library ON-DEMAND free eReader service. Be sure to bring your eReader and its USB cable and your laptop if you have one. We will be offering the 90 minute class on Friday, February 24 at 10 a.m. Additional classes will be offered if there is enough interest. Tell …
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.
The book club’s choice for February is Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi. Kirkus Reviews says: “n entertaining 21st-century variant on the classic adventure tale. Characterizations are brisk and vivid, as the story whips along toward a violent climax with a nice surprise twist…. Girardi pits the French Foreign Legion against Muslim fanatics. Since Louis Philippe founded the Legion in 1831, its lost-soul volunteers fight in the most desolate corners of the globe mostly because they have nothing better to do …
Love Chocolate and have a recipe that you consider a winner? Do you serve a dessert that makes all your friends rave as they ask for seconds and thirds? Then this is your opportunity to enter your special creation in The Friends of the Pember Library’s Second Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Contest. The contest will be held at the Pember Library, 33 West Main Street, in Granville on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM. Prizes will be awarded in the following …