Pember Library – Page 48 – Tuesday 10-5, Wednesday 1-5, Thursday 1-5, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-1

First Friday

Bad art has been flowing steadily into the Pember, and our second Annual “Dreadful Art” show, scheduled to open at August First Friday, promises to outdo last year’s event! Together with “Tacky Taxidermy” from the Pember Museum’s vaults, and a glorious sampling from MOBA’s (the Museum of Bad Art) permanent collection, we now have over 30 works of ‘art so bad, it’s good’ on hand to wow and delight First Friday goers. “MOBA’s works are must see and ‘Sweet Lips’ …

Community Appreciation Day Thursday August 6, 10-3

Every Hero has a Story! Community Heroes

Join us Wednesday, July 29 for the next in our “Community Heroes” series. Sarah Twardy will talk about being a teacher and a coach.

Stories about Personal Safety

Stories about Personal Safety! When: 11 am, Tuesday, August 4th. Where: Pember Library 33 West Main St Granville Come join the Youth Services Coordinator from the Domestic Violence Project for story time! We’ll be reading “Telling isn’t Tattling” by Kathryn M. Hammerseng to help encourage kids to talk to their parents about things that make them feel uncomfortable and unsafe. For more info. contact: Delaney Rives, 518-793-9496 or the Pember Library 518-642-2525

Every Hero has a Story! Community Heroes

Join us July 22 at 6PM when Vet Tech Jodie Prouty tells us what her job is all about!

Every Hero has a Story! Community Heroes

Join us Wednesday, July 15 at 6PM for the next in our “Community Heroes” series. Scott Chapman will talk about what it like being an EMT.

Java & Jive Fundraiser

60’s Coffee House – Java and Jive Fundraiser at the Pember Library and Museum Friday, July 17 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm * Exotic Coffee House Atmosphere * Open Mike, Spotlight and Board Games * Fresh Brewed Coffees, Cappuccino, Espresso * Coffee Cakes and Special Pastries Calling all singers, poets, troubadours and coffee hounds! If you play an instrument or sing, write poetry or have something you’d like to say, you are invited to perform at the Coffee House open mike. Or just …

Every Hero has a Story! Community Heroes

Join us Wednesday, July 8 at 6PM for the next in our “Community Heroes” series. Mike Pietryka, a retired US Navy pilot, will talk about his career.

Every Hero has a Story! Community Heroes

Our first “Community Heroes” presentation will be tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1 at 6PM. A member of the Washington County Sheriff’s office will be here to describe what they do. He will be bringing a K-9 officer!

July Board Meeting ~ notice date change

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Friday of July at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.

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 …