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.

 

Volunteers Needed

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The museum is need of a few Saturday volunteers to work one Saturday a month from 10am to 1pm. This is an easy but important position. If you want to make a difference, please stop by to fill out a form. Our hours are Tues-Fri 1-5 and Sat 10-1. Thank you.

Foxes Program Cancelled

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We apologize but the Red & Gray Foxes program at the Pember Nature Preserve today has been cancelled.  Our naturalist, Katie is feeling under the weather. Let’s send her some healing thoughts!

Weather Forecast

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It’s becoming a weekly event here in the northeast! They are predicting another snow storm beginning tonight and running into Wednesday (3/15) with heavy snow tomorrow. So, we’ve made the decision not to open the Museum tomorrow (3/14). Stay home and safe. See you on the other side.

Closed Tuesday 1/31

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With maintenance continuing on the library carpet we unfortunately will be closed on Tuesday. If you had anything due on the closed days do not worry, we will update the system and due days will change to next day we are open. The library  and museum will reopen on Wednesday at 1pm.

Hibernation vs Torpor

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Who’s really sleeping and who’s not? Think you know? Come find out the difference between hibernation and torpor. Test your knowledge of our resident mammals and reptiles.

Share an afternoon program on November 29 from 3:30-4:30pm at the Pember Museum with Conservation Biologist and Naturalist Cyd Groff.  Cyd has been coming to Granville since 2006 and moved here full time in 2012 from Connecticut. She has a Bachelors of Science Degree from Central Connecticut State University in Biology and a Master of Arts Degree from CCSU in Environmental Biology and Conservation. She has done field research for the Connecticut Audubon Society and was the Environmental Planner for the Town of Windsor for ten years that included mapping wildlife corridors, stormwater planning, inland wetland agent and enforcement, and educational programs. She and her husband have a farm and participate in the Granville seasonal farmer’s market.

Registration not required. All ages.

Young Zombie Walk

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To culminate a month of open house activities at its nature preserve, The Pember Museum of Natural History in Granville, NY will host a Halloween “Young Zombie Nature Walk” for children at it’s 125 acre Nature Preserve in Hebron, NY on Saturday, October 29 at 1pm.

There will be all day activities, refreshments, treats and zombie make-up starting at 10 am, with giveaways and prizes for best costume, with a Halloween Zombie Nature Walk on the trail at 1 pm.

The Pember Preserve is located at 6937 Route 22, Hebron, NY.

Due to limited parking at the site, registration is required. Call 518-642-1515. Please consider carpooling. See thepember.org

This is a free event.

October Open House

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There will be October Open House at the Pember Nature Preserve (6937 State Route 22, Hebron) with our new part-time Naturalist, Katie. Come meet her and explore the preserve. There will be activities, games, refreshments and prizes. Dates and times are as follows:  10/8, 10/16, 10/22, and 10/29 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

On Saturday, October 29 there will be a Halloween Special Event – Young Zombie Nature Walk at 1:00pm. The walk is open to children 12 and under. Due to the limited parking at the nature center (Porter School), reservations are required. Call 518-642-1515. Please consider carpooling with friends for this event.

Volunteers needed!

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By definition, volunteering means “to freely offer to do something.” The Pember could really use your help!

Volunteering can take many forms. We have opportunities for you to volunteer in many ways. We are hoping one of these opportunities will be something you’d love to do and it would be so helpful to us. We have possibilities at three locations. The library, the museum and the nature preserve located in Hebron.

The day to day operations sometimes are all the employees can handle so other things that we would like to have happen, get postponed. If you are looking for something to occupy your spare time, if you want to make a difference in the world and you aren’t sure how, if you want to expand your horizons or take a leap out of your comfort zone, now is the time!!

Between the three entities there are many opportunities. The library needs help with shelving books, perhaps some cleaning that might now happen on nearly an often enough basis, assistance with programs and gatherings, decorating for holidays, working in the flower bed out front…all worthwhile jobs. We range from mindless opportunities to mind blowing ones.

The museum needs volunteers to man the exhibit on weekends or other times we are open and need extra people. The animals don’t need to be fed or cleaned up after but you can learn a lot about them and appreciate Franklin Pember’s passion for them. You will receive basic training to be knowledgeable about the museum and you automatically get a title!! You will be a “docent”. (a person who acts as a guide, typically on a voluntary basis, in a museum, art gallery, or a zoo.

The Pember preserve is located on Route 22 in Hebron NY. The schoolhouse needs to be manned on occasion, there is miles of trail work that can be done, a garden of native flowers that can be maintained and weeded, programs that are put on could always use more hands. And you are enjoying nature at the same time.

If have been inspired by this story, please contact the Pember Library at 518-642-2525 or the Museum at 518-642-1515. You can email maryj.pember@gmail.com. We will be happy to further enlighten you on these opportunities.

A volunteer meeting will be held in the near future for those who have committed to this or are still on the fence.