By Catharine P. Taylor It can be easy to take a local institution such as the Town of Pelham Public Library for granted. “Every town has a library, right?” But many newer residents may not know it was a decades-long effort for the Town of...
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Families. They take care of us and they give us grief, sometimes in equal measure. For Eva, grief has contracted her heart since the death of her father two years ago in a plane accident. Her mother has thrown out every reminder of her father and...
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Join Librarian Lilly to act out “hero” and “heroine” stories, Mondays from 2 – 2:45 p.m. all through July. This program is for children ages 5 – 8, and no registration is required. June 29: Where the Wild Things Are July 6: The Three...
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This summer, the Town of Pelham Public Library will be teeming with heroes—even more so than usual—as it launches its annual Summer Reading Program. The theme for this summer, “Every Hero Has a Story,” will be reflected in activities from late...
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If school is out, than the Summer Reading Program must be beginning! The program — including the ever-popular Summer Reading Game — kicks off at a special event the day after school ends on Friday, June 26 at 2 p.m. The kickoff will...
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At its next meeting, The Book Club will discuss The Submission by Amy Waldman. Waldman, a former New York Times bureau chief, has performed a rare and dangerous feat in writing this post-9/11 novel that has been on multiple “best”...
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Every kid needs an Uncle Harvey. Uncle Harvey lives and breathes adventure. When Tom is dropped off by his parents at Harvey’s Greenwich Village apartment, Tom is in for the adventure of his life. Harvey is off to Peru to see if he can find some...
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The Library is offering three special programs for children during spring break, which begins in Pelham schools next Monday, April 30, and concludes with the Easter Monday holiday on Monday, April 6. In addition to the programs below, Story Time...
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Take a walk down memory lane and come to the Library for Steve Samtur’s 90-minute presentation featuring slides and video clips showing the Bronx in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Samtur is editor and publisher of Back In THE BRONX magazine (now...
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That Town of Pelham Public Library card in your wallet just got even more valuable. You already know it gives you free access to thousands of books and other materials and a growing list of free e-resources, but now, through the Library’s new...
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Like Susie Salmon, the dead protagonist in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, Mia is the reader’s guide to what is happening in the real world — and the world beyond. But unlike Susie, Mia is not quite dead, but very nearly so, since the...
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Due to inclement weather earlier this month, the next meeting of the Library’s Book Club will be on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., when the Club will discuss The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman. The book tells the true story of...
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