Category: The Library

The night air is getting chillier and Halloween is just around the corner…The Pember Library and Museum and the Slate Valley Museum are teaming up to host their Third Annual Halloween Party and Zombie Walk. ZOMBIE WALK III will take place during the October First Friday event, October 7, from 7 to 9 pm at both museums. “Last year’s Zombie Walk was such a huge hit, with over 400 people turning out, we are excited to host it again”, said …

Bernie will be teaching a class on creating a zentangled-inspired Flextangle Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. Class for adults and teens. Materials provided. Additional supplies available for purchase.

RATCHET AND CLANK Oddball alien Ratchet (voice of James Arnold Taylor) and his brainy robot sidekick Clank (David Kaye) embark on their biggest adventure ever in this adaptation of the video-game franchise by Insomniac Games, which explores the characters’ origin story as they work together to defend the Solana Galaxy from the evil Chairman Drek (Paul Giamatti). John Goodman, Bella Thorne, and Sylvester Stallone also lend their voices to this animated adventure directed by Jericca Cleland and Kevin Munroe.

  Thursday, September 29, 4:00PM THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES : Mark S. Waters’s adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family who must adapt to their new strange surroundings. As the story begins, twin brothers Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory and their mother, move away from the big city to a mansion owned by their uncle. When a series of strange happenings suggest that Jared may be causing a …

Thursday, September 22, 4:00PM RANGO: A pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his wildest imagination in this animated Western adventure from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. When we first meet Rango (voice of Johnny Depp), the sheltered pet chameleon is safe in his terrarium, and embarking on epic adventures through the power of imagination. Then, suddenly, his safe existence is irrevocably upended thanks to a …

Thursday, September 15, 4:00PM NANNY MCPHEE: A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the “Nurse Matilda” books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an undertaker while looking after his brood of seven children. Brown’s offspring are a singularly ill-mannered lot who have managed to drive …

Learn with Linda ~ Fall theme for preschool and school-age children. Books, crafts, activities and snacks.  

Thursday, September 8, 4:00PM THE THREE LIVES OF THOMASINA: Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney’s Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat. Thomasina is the pet of Karen Dotrice, the daughter of taciturn Scottish veterinarian Patrick McGoohan. When Thomasina falls ill, McGoohan coldly diagnoses the cat as suffering from tetanus and declares that the pet must be put out of its misery. As Dotrice and her friends sadly prepare to bury the …