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Bookmark: Summer reading game and program focuses on A Universe of Stories

Bookmark: Summer reading game and program focuses on ‘A Universe of Stories’

By Cathy Taylor
July 9, 2019

It’s time for the Town of Pelham Public Library’s summer reading game. This year, the theme is “A Universe of Stories,” and interested children from preschool to eighth grade can be part of it....

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), Study for Havell pl. 6, 1820 Pastel, watercolor, oil, graphite, and black ink on paper, laid on card; 25 1/2 x 38 15/16 in. (64.8 x 98.9 cm). Purchased for the New-York Historical Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon, 1863.17.6)

Bookmark: Explore area museums through Pelham library’s pass program

By Cathy Taylor
June 10, 2019

Spring and summer are a great time to explore the Town of Pelham Public Library’s museum pass program – and this year, three new Manhattan museums have been added to the program, featuring events and...

Bookmark: Intern Quentin Lefour brought help and French language to library

Bookmark: Intern Quentin Lefour brought help and French language to library

By Cathy Taylor
April 11, 2019

Starting in December, the library had extra help with a French accent for a few months. That’s when visiting Pelham resident Quentin Lefour took on a range of volunteering responsibilities, in an...

Bookmark: From Bangalore to Appalachia, library’s book clubs take readers to places far away

Bookmark: From Bangalore to Appalachia, library’s book clubs take readers to places far away

By Cathy Taylor
January 18, 2019

In deference to Dr. Seuss—Oh, the places you’ll go if you come to one of the Pelham Public Library’s book clubs for adults over the next six months. Bangalore, New Orleans in the 1950s, Appalachia,...

The red foot tortoise that Animal Embassy will be bringing to the library next week.

Bookmark: Library offers regular programs and special events during holiday break

By Cathy Taylor
December 22, 2018

For those of us—or is it most of us?—who are harried most of the time, the holiday break presents a wonderful opportunity to spend some leisure time at the library. Take out that novel you’ve...

Gail Vidales (l.) and Ruth Konigsberg.

Bookmark: Library itself brought Ruth Konigsberg and Gail Vidales to join staff

By Cathy Taylor
November 30, 2018

It takes a number of people—with responsibilities that are both on the front lines and behind the scenes—to make the operations of the Town of Pelham Public Library function. In Bookmark’s periodic...

Pelham Public Library (file photo)

Bookmark: Teasing out Pelham library’s year from annual report

By Cathy Taylor
September 18, 2018

Every year public libraries in New York, including the Town of Pelham Public Library, are required to file an annual report with the New York State Library that enumerates everything from the Library’s...

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