60’s Coffee House – Java and Jive Fundraiser at the Pember Library and Museum Friday, July 17 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm * Exotic Coffee House Atmosphere * Open Mike, Spotlight and Board Games * Fresh Brewed Coffees, Cappuccino, Espresso * Coffee Cakes and Special Pastries Calling all singers, poets, troubadours and coffee hounds! If you play an … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
A Chicken Barbecue to benefit the Pember will be held Saturday, May 23, 4-7 PM at the VFW Pavillion opposite Cosey Fuel on North Street.
This course assumes that researchers have begun their research already (otherwise, they need Genealogy 101). In this course, Kathleen shows how to find the juicy details that motivated us to begin all this research: lengthy obituaries, prison records, ship logs, etc. This is why we research: to discover the family stories that have been lost … Read more
Watercolors, Fly-tying and Bluegrass at Pember May First Friday What could be better than having a self-described lover of the Pember Museum of Natural History as featured artist for May First Friday? Jean Mackay, who is a serious watercolor artist of natural subjects, is returning to First Friday with new works of birds, insects, and … Read more
The book club will be reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. From Goodreads : From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.In this brilliantly written, fast-paced … Read more