2/6/2020
Due to the weather forecast, we are postponing the Coffee House which was scheduled for tomorrow evening (First Friday). Please check back here for a new date when we figure it out.
2/6/2020
Due to the weather forecast, we are postponing the Coffee House which was scheduled for tomorrow evening (First Friday). Please check back here for a new date when we figure it out.
Pember to Host 60’s Coffee House
Calling all singers, poets, and coffee hounds! The Pember Library and Museum in Granville, NY is holding its fourth annual “Coffee House Java and Jive on Tap” on Friday, February 7, from 6 – 8 PM.
Open call to musicians, story tellers and poets to be heard at the open mic, in a retro atmosphere. There will be board games along with a range of brews, coffee cakes and special pastries for sale.
Admission is free.
For more information, contact the Pember at 518-642-2525.

TO BENEFIT THE FRIENDS OF THE PEMBER LIBRARY
Please join The Friends of the Pember Library on Monday, January 13, for a spaghetti dinner at the United Church of Granville located at 18 Church Street. The dinner is available beginning at 4:30 PM until 6:30 PM or until sold out. You can dine in or take-out. The menu includes spaghetti with meat sauce, salad, and a roll for the cost of $8.00. Homemade desserts will be available for purchase.
Parking is available in the lot across the street from the church. Thanks to the United Church for the donation of the space.
The Friends of the Pember Library is a volunteer organization whose purpose is to acquaint Granville and surrounding communities with the library’s high-quality resources and services. They raise funds through book sales and other activities to help purchase items outside the library’s regular budget.
This will be the only fundraiser for the Friends this season. Mark your calendar for this event to support one of Granville’s great historic assets.
Animal Tracking – Sunday, January 19 – 11:30am to 1:00pm
Join Beth Moser-Duquette for a walk around the Nature Preserve identifying its animals by their tracks. Meet at the Porter Schoolhouse (6937 NY 22, Hebron) for this free program open to all ages. Dress accordingly and bring water. The schoolhouse has facilities but no running water. Weather-permitting. If it’s snowing and the roads are bad, the program will be cancelled.
The Paint & Sip planned for tomorrow evening, 12-5-19, has been cancelled. We will let you know when we are able to reschedule.

White Christmas
Wednesday, December 4, 6 PM

The Grinch
Friday, December 6, 4 PM

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Friday, December 13, 3 PM

It’s a Wonderful Life
Wednesday, December 18, 6 PM

Elf
Friday, December 20, 3 PM
Due to the threat of icy weather, the Friends have decided to postpone this dinner.

The Pember Library and Museum in Granville, NY is pleased to announce our sixth annual “Festival of Wreaths”.
The Pember will once again offer creative-minded individuals in our community an opportunity to make a personal or business-themed holiday wreath that will hang on the walls of the Pember.
Guidelines and entry forms are available at the Library desk or below:
This workshop has been cancelled due to lack of registrations. It’s been rescheduled during Spring School Break on April 13, 2020.
Join us in the Library for an active moving, looking and creating activity with the Hyde Collection. Participants will create a fun printmaking artwork that is inspired by the exhibition Picasso, Braque and Leger which opened on October 6 at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls.
This is a free workshop open to the whole family with children age 6 and older. Of course, adults are welcome.
Registration is required no later than November 12. Call the Museum at 518-642-1515 or Library at 518-642-2525. Space is limited to 25 participants.
Keri Dudek is the Assistant Educator at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY. Her responsibilities include developing and instructing relevant education programming which explores a variety of artistic, cultural and intellectual perspectives to all levels of learning. Dudek conducts family programs such as Artful Afternoons, Tour for Tots, Art Crawl and Art Lab. She coordinates Here and Now programs which are designed for participants with Alzheimer’s, dementia or stroke related challenges. The museum offers visitors a self-guided Discovery Kit and Gallery Guides which Dudek creates for the rotating special exhibitions. She is actively pursuing ways The Hyde Collection can provide a more inclusive and accessible learning environment to all visitors. She paints between folding loads of laundry and lives in Saratoga Springs, NY with her husband and three children.
The Hyde Collection
The Hyde Collection Trust was founded in 1952 by Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, a Gilded Age collector who shared her art collection and home with the public. The Museum opened in 1963, after her death. The Hyde’s core collection, acquired by Mrs. Hyde and her husband, Louis, includes works by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Pablo Picasso, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as American artists Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and James McNeill Whistler. The Museum’s collection of Modern and Contemporary art features works by artists including Josef Albers, Dorothy Dehner, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bridget Riley. Today, the Museum includes the historic house and a modern wing with five galleries, and innovative programming to inspire with art.
Photo: Fernand Léger (French 1881-1955), Fêtes de la Faim, (Day of Hunger) 1949, lithograph in black with three colors, 13 x 9 5/8 in., Anonymous Loan. © Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
At their annual meeting on Saturday, October 26, the Washington County Historical Society presented the Pember with the 2019 President’s Award. The award is in recognition of the Pember writing a grant that was awarded and for successfully installing an elevator allowing the museum to be accessible to all patrons. Accepting the reward on behalf of the Pember was Bernadette Hoffman. Following the annual meeting, members of the WCHS visited the Museum with Bernadette presenting background information on Franklin Pember and the collection.


Calling all ghouls! Halloween is approaching and the Pember Library and Museum and the Slate Valley Museum are teaming up for pre-Halloween fun. Zombie Fest takes place on First Friday, October 4, from 7 to 9 pm at both museums. Zombie Walk VI assembles at the Pember for the 8 pm march to the Slate Valley Museum.
“We expect a large Zombie mob this year,” said Mary King, Pember board president. “And we are prepared to feed and rally them for the 8 o’clock Walk and invasion of the Slate Valley Museum.”
Both museums are planning organized events this year, with activities, crafts, treats, costume judging, prizes and surprises! The Pember will provide “Wormy Dogs on a bun,” “Jelly Eyeballs,” “Bloody Punch,” “Spider Peanut Butter Cup Cookies,” and “Meaty Lady Fingers” for hungry ghouls, along with make up stations and Zombie Rock to wake the dead for the Zombie Parade down Main Street to the SVM, where the party will continue with crafts, a costume contest, and more goodies!
Festivities start at 7 pm and everything is FREE!
Don and Ann Duncan, will be the guest speakers at the Pember Library and Museum on Wednesday, September 25th, at 6 PM. The Duncans will talk about their new book: DESTINATION D.C. a Modern-day Jonah? and the events that led them to write this book.
Ann is a local radio personality on WVNR/WNYV, artist and author. DESTINATION D.C. is her 6th book.

Weekly
Tuesdays 10 AM ~ Pember Peapods
Wednesdays 3-4:30 PM ~ A Good Yarn
Wednesdays 5-7 PM ~ Book Sale
Thursdays 2:30 PM Journaling
Saturday 10 AM – Noon ~ Book sale
Tuesday through Saturday during open hours:for all ages: build with LEGOs, Keva Planks, K’Nex, games and puzzles
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These Museum programs will be held at the Pember Nature Preserve
@ 6397 St Rt 22, Hebron
Summer & Fall Nature Programs
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Please register by Friday before program
• 9/8 Nature’s Treasures Walk
Make a treasure box
• 9/22 Fall Leaves Walk
Pressed leaf coaster
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These Museum programs will be held at the Pember 33 West Main, Granville
After School Programs
3:30-4:30 PM
Please register 1 week in advance
• 9/11 Nature’s Art ~ Flowers
• 9/25 Nature’s Art ~ Seeds & Beans
These programs will be held at the Pember 33 West Main, Granville
The Library will be closing at 5:00pm today, Wednesday August 21. We apologize for any inconvenience.
John Hughes, Recruiting Assistant for the 2020 census, will present more in-depth information about what census jobs will be available.
Even though the Census is incredibly important, not many people really have a good idea about what it is or what census jobs entail. John Hughes, Recruiting Assistant for the 2020 census, will be at the Pember to share information and clear some misconceptions about what exactly the census is and what a census worker does. He will talk to people about the census and the jobs they are currently hiring for.
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.
See you in August!

Weekly
Tuesdays 10 AM ~ Pember Peapods
Wednesdays 3-4:30 PM ~ A Good Yarn
Wednesdays 5-7 PM ~ Book Sale
Saturday 10 AM – Noon ~ Book sale
Tuesday through Saturday during open hours:
for all ages: build with LEGOs, Keva Planks, K’Nex, games and puzzles
These Museum programs will be held at the Pember Nature Preserve @ 6397 St Rt 22, Hebron
Summer Nature Programs
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Please register by Friday before program
Flower Press & dried Flower Picture
Seeds & Beans Mosaic
These programs will be held at the Pember @ 33 West Main West Main Granville

A joint meeting of the children’s, teen & adult programs. We will be making constellation art and discussing the rest of the summer program. There will be prizes all summer long!


Stars ᴙ Us (for adults)
~ July 1- Sept 6 ~ enter a ticket in the drawing for each time you check out books from the library
~ July 20, noon-3PM ~ Shoot for the Moon
(youtube videos of the moon landing with space snacks and Tang!)
~ August 6, Tuesday ~ On the Rocks with Space Trivia
~ July 1- Sept 6 ~ To the Library and Beyond!
(Choose three activities from the list and turn your worksheet in to be entered into a prize drawing)
All programs are subject to change

Space Rangers with Jo-ann
(teen program, July 1-September 6)
Enter a ticket in the teen drawing for each time you check out books from the library
Thursdays at 2PM (July 11-Aug 15)
Constellation Boards
Galaxy Jars
Eggs in Space
Alien Cupcakes
Talk by a member of an astronomy club
Galaxy sun catchers
Keep a sky log
Out of this world snacks
All programs are subject to change

Preschool story time through the end of July will be based on the theme “A Universe of Stories.” The program is each Tuesday at 10AM.
There will be no preschool story time in August.

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public. See Upcoming Events Calendar for dates of meetings.
Betty Little and some of our donors will be on hand for the ribbon cutting. There will be coffee and pastries. And of course the elevator will be in use!