Altamont Library Notes for Friday, March 11, 2016
Photo from Joe Burke
A wide-eyed young artist proudly displays her work, created at the Altamont Free Library, which will be sent to some far-flung country as part of the Global Art Project for Peace.
Photo from Joe Burke
Give peace a chance: Organizers of the Altamont library’s Global Art Project for Peace, Ellen Howie, left, and Ruth Dickinson share an embrace.
This past Saturday, the Altamont Free Library hosted an extraordinary event known as the Global Art Project for Peace. Every two years, people all around the world participate in this wonderful project where groups create a piece of art expressing the hope for a more peaceful world
Once the art is created, the groups exchange their art with a group from another country. In years past, we have exchanged art with groups in Australia and Germany. We cannot wait to see who we’re paired with this year, and how they express their vision of global peace.
The peace flags that our children (and adults) created this year will be on display in the library’s community room for the next month before they are shipped off to their next destination, and we invite you to come and take a look
Many thanks are due to Ruth Dickinson and Ellen Howie for organizing and overseeing the project. We hope that our small contribution to an international dialogue on peace will play a role in making this a more just, free, and peaceful world.
Easter egg decoration
Easter is just around the corner, and what better way to get into the spirit than by dying Easter eggs? Please join us on Friday, March 18 at 3 p.m. for some colorful Easter fun. We’ll boil the eggs and provide all the supplies, so all you have to bring is your creativity!
Book discussion
The Penultimate Monday Book Club will be meeting on Monday March 21 at 7 p.m. to discuss “All The Light We Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr. This acclaimed and bestselling novel, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, concerns a blind French girl and a young German soldier obsessed with the new technology of radios and their intertwined fates. There’s plenty of time to pick up a copy at the library, so please join us for what will no doubt be a fascinating discussion about one of the year’s most popular books.
100 for 100
As I may have mentioned once or twice before, the library will mark our 100th anniversary in 2016. To mark the occasion, we will be celebrating in many ways throughout the year, and there will be countless ways to participate in the celebrations. One way that you can participate is by making a contribution to our Centennial Fund. We are looking for 100 donors to donate $100 each to ensure that your library will be able to continue to thrive at the heart of our community for the next 100 years. Donors to the Centennial Fund will be acknowledged in the library’s display case throughout the year and will be invited to a special party this summer at the Breitenbach Castle. For more information, please give me a call at 861-7239 or e-mail me at .
One-on-One Tech Help
Flummoxed by your Nook? Curious about your Kindle? Ready to throw your iPad across a room? Let us help. Make an appointment with a staff member and bring whatever eReader or tablet you’ve got and we’ll (try our best to) help you download books to it or help troubleshoot any basic problems you might be having. You can schedule up to a half-hour to work through your tech issues by calling us at 861-7239 or e-mailing .