Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, April 4, 2019
Please join us at the Altamont Free Library for a meeting of our newest book club, which is focused exclusively on mysteries! We’ve got members interested in every subgenre from intense psychological thrillers to low-key cozy mysteries and every type of mystery in between.
If you love a good whodunit, please join us on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. as we veer into the realm of true crime for a discussion of the “The Feather Thief” by Kirk Wallace Johnson.
Trivia Night!
On Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m., make a team, study up, and BYOB to our mind-twisting trivia contest! Entrance is $5 and the winners take half the door. Contestants must be 21 and up, please.
Earth Day craft
Celebrate Earth Day and the spring season with us at the library on Friday, April 19, from 10 a.m. to noon. We’ll be making cool rock art to decorate your garden, your doorstep, or your village! Please register in advance by calling the library at 518-861-7239.
Juice and Jammies Story Time
On Friday, April 19, at 7 p.m., put on your pj’s and join Ms. Erika for a pre-bedtime story, snack, and craft! This low-key story time will be just the thing to prepare your young folks to count some sheep.
Garden plotting
Spring is in the air, and how better to celebrate than by getting down into the dirt and planting some seeds? But maybe your thumb is more a mint green than a forest green.
If you have questions about gardening, please join us on Monday, April 22, at 6 p.m. for a presentation by a group of local gardening experts called Awakening the Garden in Spring followed by a Q&A with certified Master Gardeners.
Book Sale
On Saturday, May 4, Altamont Free Library will hold our annual book sale in conjunction with the PTA’s village-wide garage sale. From noon on Wednesday, May 1, until Friday, May 3, we will be very grateful to accept book, CD and DVD donations, which will either be added to the library’s collection or sold to raise money for library programs.
(Sorry, but we will not be running a garage sale this year, so household goods will not be accepted. Also, no encyclopedias please and thank you.) Please don’t forget to visit us during the sale to find your next favorite book!
Christine Capuano Exhibit
What a talented bunch of folks we have in this village! Over the past few months, we’ve been happy to display collections of paintings by Altamont-based artists Nancy Murphy and Joan Johnson, and now we have another homegrown artist to highlight.
Please visit a new exhibit of pastels by Christine Capuano in our community room, which will be hanging for the next several weeks. Christine is one of our favorite local artists. She even designed the library’s logo, so she has a special place in our heart. Come take a look! Thanks for brightening up the library, Christine!
Story Time!
One of the best ways of getting our youngest friends to become strong readers is by exposing them to a wide variety of readers and reading environments? For that reason, and also just because it’s just fun, we have two story times each week on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday Story times with Miss Ann are targeted at preschoolers, while our Wednesday Story Times with Miss Erika are for toddlers (but we don’t mind older or younger friends on either day). Please join us for mornings of stories, songs, and bubbles.