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New Pember Volunteer

On January 25th at 10:30 the Pember Library welcomed a new volunteer. Lilly is a certified therapy dog with Therapy Dogs International. Lilly will be visiting the library monthly to provide a companionable audience for children to read with. Children of all ages and reading levels are encouraged to come down and pick out their favorite book to read to her. Lilly has recently been working with an adult population, but she loves kids! We are excited to start working …

Book Club

The next selection for the Pember Book Club is Emily Dickinson, her letter to the world by Polly Longsworth KIRKUS REVIEW says: Emily Dickinson is a personality with a special attraction for adolescents. Her poems require little experience to scan, and once read retain their fascination by the elusive inscrutability of the message coupled with the simplicity of the images. Her own life enhances this interest. She was a woman who never seems to have grown old, and the mystery …

Pember Board Meeting

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.

Book Club

from GoodReads: The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic …

Closed

The Pember Library will be closed today because of the winter storm.

Holiday Hours

The Pember Library will be closed December 22 through December 25. We will have regular hours December 26-28 and be closed December 29-January 1.

Book Club

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray will be up for discussion at December’s book club meeting. Goodreads says: Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the …

Pember Board Meeting

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.

Thanksgiving Holiday

The Library will be closing at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, November 27 and will be closed for Thanksgiving. We will reopen on Tuesday, December 3 at 9:00 AM for our regular hours next week.

Pember Board Meeting

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.

Book Club

The Pember Book Club will meet November 19 at 1:00 PM to discuss The Round House by Louise Erdrich. from goodreads.com The Round House by Louise Erdrich National Book Award Winner One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, …