Category: The Library

The continuing adventures of the Dahl family… Ella loves horses.She wondered if Grandpa Mike had horses? We couldn’t really find any information either way on that but we found these pictures in our local history section. Here’s Ella inspecting the photo of William Hicks, a blacksmith with a shop on Church Street. Also from the Morris Rote-Rosen collection of photographs was this picture of a group of Granville folks at the horse races at the Cambridge fair. There’s Bert Braymer, …

The continuing saga of the Dahl family Ruth reminded me that today is Star Wars day. She told me the story of going to the drive-in when she was attending the University of Iowa in 1977. She said “I can’t tell you how fun it was watching Skywalker blow up the Death Star on a big screen under a sky full of glittering stars!”So we had a showing of the original Star Wars movie this morning and I boasted about …

The continuing saga of the Dahl family at the Pember Ruth disappeared for a while and I finally found her out near our tower garden. I’m still not sure how she opened the door to the elevator area. Maybe Lucy helped her? Anyway, she was smelling the wonderful basil we have and complaining about not having a caprese salad for a long time. We have arugula, bibb lettuce, some basil, swiss chard, and a few other greens growing here. It …

The continuing saga of the Dahl family at the Pember Grace works at the Grinnell-Newburg CSD. She is the advisor for their yearbook committee so she was interested in looking through the Blue & Gold we have available at the Pember. We have yearbooks from 1948 through 2013 missing only 2001 and 2004. Grace asked me to show her the 1948 yearbook to see how much had changed in 70+ years. We love this page with the collage. Is that …

You can keep track of summer reading online by going to this page. If you prefer to keep track on paper, use these paper logs: Have fun reading. If you need help with the summer reading webpage, let me know.

http://pember.ny11.readsquared.com/ The Summer Reading program inspires children, teens and families to keep reading and continue to develop lifelong learning skills. The Pember Library has teamed with the Southern Adirondack Library System and NY State to bring you ReadSquared, an online way to keep track of your summer reading. There will also be a mobile app available. Sign up at the above link and start your reading. For book lists and info for parents see Summer Reading at New York Libraries. …

In keeping with Executive Order 202.1 (regarding emergency adjustments to the Open Meetings Law in response to the Covid-19 pandemic), the public is not permitted in-person access to this meeting, and the meeting shall be held remotely via GoToMeeting. As required by the Governor’s Order, the public will have the ability to LISTEN TO such proceeding by dialing (571) 317-3122 Access Code: 494-073-205 and the meeting minutes will be available at the Pember.

Now more than ever, we should all respond to the Census online, by phone, or by mail. Responses are kept confidential, and it’s easy to respond in 12 non-English languages. The Census count directs federal funding for the next ten years to our community. Visit www.2020census.gov