Every two years in the fall, Pelham is blanketed with something in addition to falling leaves: invitations to Novel Night, the biennial fundraiser by the Friends of the Town of Pelham Public Library. This year, Novel Night will be held on...
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Local author Paul Freedman — who is also the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University — will return to the Library on Monday, October 24, to discuss his new book, Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The book takes...
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Many of us equate summertime with the chance to read a good book—or two—but find that the hectic days that start in September pre-empt us from doing what we’d really like to do—participate in a book club. The Town of Pelham Public Library has an...
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The Pelham Public Library’s K-Day is an annual event when children entering kindergarten can get their first library cards. This year, it will be held on September 24 from 12:30 – 3:30pm. Getting a Library Card is only one part of...
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On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish Army put up little resistance, and by that afternoon Germany occupied Denmark. The German government promised the Danes that life would go on normally if they didn’t resist their new overlords...
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How we treat each other does matter; it can sometimes determine who lives and who dies. Betty Glengarry is a force of evil who suddenly arrives one day in the small Pennsylvania farming town of Wolf Hollow. Everywhere she goes, she spreads lies...
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The following post is from the blog of Blake Bell, Town of Pelham Historian, and was originally published on Monday, June 6, 2016: The building that houses today’s Town of Pelham Public Library located at 530 Colonial Avenue at the...
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Nightingale is not Raymie’s real last name, but it describes her well. Like Florence Nightingale, Raymie knows how to shed light and rescue the needy. She and two other girls meet at the home of a baton winner in order to learn how to twirl...
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The Library is holding a program on Monday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. designed to ensure that people headed toward retirement know what they’re doing when it comes to their Social Security benefits. Many Americans think Social Security is simple...
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Over the first half of the year, the Bookmark has been introducing you to the Library staff. While the people who work there are familiar – and certainly helpful — many of us don’t know much about them. So, this Bookmark – part three in the...
Read more你好 (Ni Hao! – or “Hello!” in Chinese) The Library’s Chinese-English version of Story Time, organized by bilingual Pelham parents and their young kids, is continuing into the fall, and will be held every other Saturday in the Library’s...
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Even though the Town of Pelham Public Library is a quiet spot in a frenetic, noisy world, it’s also usually bustling. Walk in on any given day, and you’ll encounter people of all ages taking out books, studying, or—if they are part of the younger...
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