Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, February 2, 2017
Please join us for the second of our SongTeller Sessions Concerts this Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. In these concerts, each local performer will receive the same list of 10 questions that they’ll answer through stories and songs so that we can get an idea of their personal and creative journey. The questions are:
— What is a song your parents loved?
— What was the first album you bought with your own money?
— What was the first song you learned to play?
— What's the first bad song you wrote?
— What's the first good song you wrote?
— If you could have written any song, what would it be?
— What song do you love that other people seem to dislike?
— What's a traditional/folk/children's/church song that you like?
— What's a song that reminds you of home?
— What song of yours would you like to be remembered by?
Our performer this month is local folk rocker Plupen. Plupen is the stage name of multi-instrumentalist John Florussen. He has been creating music as Plupen since his time at film school in the early 2000s. In 2003, he met and fell in love with an American, and they subsequently traveled the world together. They now live in Schoharie where he continues to make new music.
Coffee and snacks will be available and all ages are welcome.
Gala
It’s nearly Gala time! Please join us at the tenth annual I Love My Library! Gala on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 5 to 9:30 p.m. at the Altamont village hall community room. Invitations are in the mail and can also be picked up here at the library. There will be dinner, dessert, live and silent auctions, and much more. This year we will honor the amazing Train Station Quilters who do so much to create the fabric of our community. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and in addition to being important for the library, it’s also a ton of fun. If you’ve never attended before, you don’t know what you’re missing. Please join us.
Book talk
On Monday Feb. 6 at noon the First Monday Book Club will meet to discuss “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson. Based on the true story of the author’s unlikely attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail with his desperately out of shape friend, this hilarious story is a pleasure to read and to discuss. Please join us.
Trivia night
On Thursday, Feb. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. our monthly Trivia Night is back. Make a team, study up, and BYOB to this mind-twisting trivia contest. Entrance is $5 and the winning team takes half of the door. Contestants must be 21 and up, please.