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Pember Presents: a Storyteller

Stories from Stones…Stone Soup and a Little Bit More A “Be Creative @ Your Library” program. Children and teens will be able to sign up for summer reading after the performance. Karen says: “Listen…and you will hear stories from long ago and far away, and stories from today, as we go on an adventure into a world where friends are made and magic abounds. Some stories will find us in magical places and some will happen right in your backyard. …

Pember Presents: Jack and the Scarlet Runner Beanstalk: Gardening with Children

Join us at the Pember Wednesday evening, when Sue Kowaleski will talk about a few options for planting a little garden with/for children. She will have a powerpoint to show with some fun vegetables for adults to grow with children. There would still be time for participants to get a little garden in the ground after June 17. Think about kids picking beans they planted themselves to have for supper! Or carving their own jack-o-lantern in October after watching it …

Library Launches Online Book Club

Finding a Great Book to Read Just Got Easier So many books, so little time. For all those busy people, the Pember Library has a new service sponsored by the Friends of the Pember Library: an Online Book Club that delivers books electronically. Each day, Monday through Friday, the library e-mails subscribers a portion of a book that takes about 5-minutes to read. They’re able to read two or three chapters from a book during the week. If they like …

Ice Cream Social and Art Reception

Join us Saturday, June 6 from 2-5 PM, for Kid’s Day, the kick-off event in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pember. Stewart’s has generously donated the fixings for kids to make their own ice cream sundaes. Other highlights of the day will be music with DJ Brent Tuttle and balloon animals and other activities with Melody the Clown. There will be goodie bags for the kids. Artwork created by students at Mary J Tanner and Granville Elementary …

Pember Presents

Dave Ruch will be giving a special concert entitled “Old-TimeTraditional & Historical Songs of New York State” on June 12 at 7 P. M. at the Pember Library, 33 West Main St in Granville, NY. When we think of old-time ballads and songs handed down from generation to generation, we might think of places like Kentucky, or North Carolina, or the Ozark Mountains…….Did you know we’ve got them right here in the Empire State, too? For this special concert, Ruch …

Parade

Here’s a photo of Ryan and me waiting for the parade to begin. Thanks to Tiffany and Ryan for taking part in the parade (and pushing the carts). Thanks to Heather and Alyssa for their help with putting the cake together. Also thanks to Cy for his help in putting the banners on the second cart. It was great fun. We have some other 100th birthday celebration things planned and we’ll share the details in the Sentinel and here on …

Genii McRoberts

I remember Genii’s daughter coming in to the library asking if we needed a volunteer. Boy, did we! Genii came in and helped us with cataloging and transferring all of our books from our old automated system to a new one. She worked hard, always with a sense of humor. Her dedication to books and libraries shows in the children’s room where she devised and implemented our color coding dots system. She had wonderful stories that she shared with her …

Discussion group planned

Please join us at the Pember Library for a new discussion group. Coffee, tea and cookies will be available for participants. Those who come to our first discussion group will be able to decide when and how often they want to meet and what topic(s) they would like to talk about. Our first discussion will focus on Abraham Lincoln since 2009 marks 200 years since his birth. I will have several Lincoln books available before the group meets and we …

Computer Classes

Our computer classes for seniors have filled up quickly. If you still want to take a class with Barb, call us at the library or send an email. We will put you on a waiting list. We are trying to come up with new ideas for funding and would like to be able to do the classes more often than we have been able to schedule them. I got this photo of Lucy this morning waiting for computer classes to …

The Sap is Running

UPDATE: I removed some of the photos to make it easier on folks with slow connections. The photos are still available if someone wants to see a pic of one of the buckets. The fund-raiser was very successful using only 17 of the 30 buckets that were donated. Thank you to everyone for your continued support of the Pember. _______________________________________________________________________________ Here are photos of the sap buckets donated to the Pember for the fund-raising auction which will be taking place …

Pember Presents: the Great American Tractor Wars

The Pember Library presents “From Muscles to Motors on the Farm: Henry Ford and the Great American Tractor Wars, 1910-1930” The Pember Library will present a lecture by Dr. Milton Sernett on “From Muscles to Motors on the Farm: Henry Ford and the Great American Tractor Wars, 1910-1930”. Free and open to the general public, the event begins at 6:30 PM on April 9 at the Pember Library in Granville. This event is made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, …