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Pember Book Club

Pember Book Club

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 …
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Summer Reading

Summer Reading

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
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Intermediate Genealogy ~ Problem Solving / Immigration

Intermediate Genealogy ~ Problem Solving / Immigration

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.
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Chicken Barbecue

Chicken Barbecue

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.
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Intermediate Genealogy ~ Family Stories

Intermediate Genealogy ~ Family Stories

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 to time.
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First Friday

First Friday

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 other beings from the natural world.   Jean has used the Pember’s collection of natural specimens as resource material for her paintings on numerous occasions, …
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Book Club

Book Club

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 book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in …
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Genealogy 101

Genealogy 101

Please join us for a series of workshops: April 29, 6-8 PM. Join us at the Pember Library, 33 West Main St in Granville, for a free series of genealogy programs by Kathleen Moore. The first course, Genealogy 101, explains how to begin a genealogy search — without spending money. It highlights the excellent free sites available, and the subscription sites available at many libraries. Kathleen will also go over the basics for starting searches in different countries. Pre-registration is …
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Computer Classes

Computer Classes

Beginning computer classes for senior citizens (over age 55) will once again be offered. Barbara Young will teach six 1 1/2 hour sessions (Wednesdays and Fridays for three weeks) beginning April 15. Pre-registration is required. Sign up now to get a place in the class. The class size is limited to six people (or 8 if some people bring in their own laptops). Classes will cover internet and email, word processing, and using the library card catalog. For further information …
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Book Club

Book Club

The Pember Book Club is reading In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen. Join us for a discussion of the book on April 21 at 1:00 PM Berlin,1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else’s surprise, become America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history.
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