Holiday Hours

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Regular hours 12/19 – 12/21 and 12/26-12/28 for both the library and museum

Closed 12/24, 12/25, 12/31 and 1/1.

We will be back to a normal schedule beginning January 2.

Have a safe and joyous holiday season!

Live Owls Coming in January!

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Trish Marki with Silent Wings Raptors Rehab and Education, a program of the Wildlife Institute of Eastern New York will be presenting live owls at the Pember Library on January 25 from 11:00am to 12:00pm. Come learn about the owls of our area and some that may not be residents.

Following the program, Museum Educator Bernie will hold a pellet dissecting class from 12-12:45. Registration is required for the class as space is limited. Call 518-642-1515 to reserve your spot in the class.

Young Explorers

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Join us for our after-school program featuring the flora and fauna of the Pember Nature Preserve. Participants, 1st grade and up will enjoy hands-on learning, playing educational games and/or crafting.

Registration is required prior to each class by calling the Museum at 518-642-1515, Facebook messaging or email Pember_edu@roadrunner.com.

The class will run from September 26 through December 12 with no class on November 28. We’ll meet in the library from 3:30-4:30pm.

Upcoming Preserve Programs

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Friday, June 28 – 10-11:30am – FLOWER WALK
Meet at the historic Porter Schoolhouse (our Nature Center), 6937 State Route 22, Hebron. We’ll take a short walk discussing how to use a wildflower guide to identify wildflowers. Crafts will follow. There are paper flowers, flower bookmarks and clay flowers to make. The clay is air dry which will cure at your home. If you don’t have paint, you’re more than welcome to come back to the preserve when we are open to paint. Registration is not necessary. Be sure to dress accordingly and spray for ticks.

Friday, July 5 – 10:00-11:00am – 5th of FERNS
Meet at the South Grimes Hill Road entrance to the preserve for a fern identification walk down the Woodland Loop trail and North Marsh. If you would like, bring a folding stool. Registration is not necessary. Be sure to dress accordingly and spray for ticks.

More programs to come!

Support Your Library

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From: The Pember Board

Most of you have received the flyer from the school addressing the budget, elections and propositions that are coming before you. This year there is a new one. A process was created by the State to assist public libraries pursuant to Section 509 of New York State Education Law The Granville School District Board of Education has been authorized to place a proposition before the voters at the May 21, 2024 School District Election. We would like to share with you how this will work and how important it is to the library. Other libraries throughout the area that utilize this collection method are Greenwich, Salem and Argyle.
The Pember, like everyone, is having a hard time with sustainable funding. Attempting to run the library primarily on donations, especially in a time when people everywhere are experiencing difficulties, is not allowing us to provide quality, consistent programing or to hire people at a living wage to perform the programing and other tasks involved in running the library day to day. To be respectful of the current economic climate, we worked out a rate that would be approximately $30-40 dollars per household, less than the cost of two hard cover books, which will result in raising $100,000 annually, from the Granville School District households. These monies will appear on your school tax bill and the funds will be collected by the school. They will account for this levy separately from their own and it will be paid in full to the Pember. This is totally separate and apart from the annual school budget. If it is modified in the future, it will be done through another vote.

It is the goal of the Pember to continue to provide and perhaps enhance library service to all residents of our school district, which parallels our service area.

In addition to the basic library services, we have computers for use in the library or to borrow and take home with you. There are numerous reading-based programs for preschoolers through adults, movie nights, game nights, art shows, lectures, and music. We also participate in a program called “farm 2 library” that shares the excess produce of local growers with families for free at their local library. This consists of dairy products, fruits and vegetables along with pastas and beans provided through our “Friends of the Library” group. Internet access is always important and that is free to the public as well through the Pember’s system.

We hope this gives insight into how important this is to the Pember and to our surrounding communities. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email at maryj.pember@gmail.com.

We thank you for your consideration of this important proposition and hope you will understand the importance of our request.

Libraries will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no libraries. (Anne Herbert)

Thank you in advance from the Pember Library and Museum Board of Directors.

Closed

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The Library and Museum will be closed today, April 4 due to the weather.

March Basket

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The March Pember Basket celebrates the holidays of two cultures: St. Patrick’s Day for the Irish among us (and aren’t we all Irish on St. Paddy’s Day?), and also St. David’s Day for the substantial Welsh community in the Slate Valley! On the Irish side of the Basket we have a book, “Angela’s Ashes,” the highly acclaimed memoir by Frank McCourt, who also won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1997; a wooden self-standing sign, “Let the Shenanigans Begin,” which features three leprechauns or elves on top; a green scarf with shamrocks for the woman who remembers to wear something green only as she’s going out the door! And on the Welsh side we have a red dragon (okay, he’s Chinese, but a dragon, and for a thousand years there wasn’t a defined image in Wales for their dragon — so he works!); the daffodil being the flower of Wales we have an engaging activity — Lego daffodils; and a handcrafted folklorically dressed lady doll sporting the traditional Welsh hat! The basket will also contain a printed explanation of many Welsh symbols, what is known about St. David, and a some things about Wales itself. We invite you to come look at the basket, and help the Pember by participating in the raffle. The drawing will be March 29, 2pm.

“PEMBER BASKET OF THE MONTH”

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The Pember Board is pleased to announce their “PEMBER BASKET OF THE MONTH”

It will be an ongoing fundraiser for the rest of this year, and perhaps beyond, if it proves to be popular.  The basket contents will be thematic, always contain at least one book, and we will endeavor to make them unusual, surprising, and compelling!

We may treat well-known themes in unique ways — the February Valentine Basket does not show the usual colors and motifs, however, we believe we hit another note with the use of silver!

The February Basket also contains a bottle of Spumante, which requires that an adult pick up the winning basket. The contents of the February Basket are:

– A bottle of Andre’ Spumante (the only sparkling wine that has a cork that will keep the contents from going flat, so you don’t have to drink it all at once!)
– A pair of cut glass or crystal champagne flutes
– The Book is by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, “The Wedding”
– And elegant wooden standing plaque about “LOVE”
– A lovely 18″ silver-plated necklace with an abalone heart; sterling ear wires with sarmaticus shell hearts.
– Ghirardelli chocolates – 2 bags

– All tucked into a special white basket with sparkling silver burlap, and set off with silver ribbons.

Raffle tickets are $1 each or $5 for 6 tickets and are available in the library. The drawing will be on February 14th. Please place your phone number or email address on each ticket that you place in the jar.

The Board of the Pember hopes you will always be able to find something of interest that will spark your imagination. Why not come down and take a look at the Basket of the Month?  And if you have any ideas for other ones, we encourage you to share them with us!

Nature Programs!

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Don’t forget that we offer nature programs at the Pember Nature Preserve – 6937 State Route 22 in Hebron at the historic Porter Schoolhouse. There are hands-on studies, readings, crafts and nature walks. See page – Nature Programs 2023.

Museum Hours

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Typically, our hours are Tues-Fri 1-5 and Sat 10-1. However, we will be closed on Wednesday, July 12. If you plan on visiting, please call to verify our hours. We will update any changes here on our website, Facebook page and on the answering machine. We are short on staff and volunteers and apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.

New Exhibit!

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Forgotten Relics is our newest exhibit which will run until mid-May of next year. It’s a must see, BUT if you can’t make it here in person, here are some photos and information on the items. See page – Forgotten Relics.

Our Exhibit Sign

Nature Preserve West Trail

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We are experiencing destruction on the West Trail. People are entering the trail from Clark Way on four-wheelers which is strictly forbidden and have also noticed the cutting and removal of trees. If you hear of anyone doing this, please report them. We are contemplating setting up cameras and a barrier as posted signs are being ignored. We are asking that our hikers go only to the Observation Deck and not into the old forest part of the West Trail (see marked map) until we are able to clean it up. Thank you.