Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, April 28, 2021

We are so lucky to live in the community that we do, with such wonderful neighbors. We always do what we can to support our neighbors, and our neighbors do the same.

We’ve recently received generous donations from some of our community members that we’d like to share with you.

First, we’ve received a Community Grant from our wonderful friends at Altamont Community Tradition for $300. We also recently received a $500 Holiday Match Program Grant from our friends at Stewart’s Shops.

Both of these grants will go towards purchasing new educational books and materials for our children’s section in a year where we would otherwise have to cut back on book purchases. So thank you, ACT and Stewart’s for all that you do to improve our wonderful community. You’re the best neighbors that we could have asked for.

Outdoor programs

With the weather getting better and better, it’s time to resume some in-person programs in beautiful Orsini Park. We’ll start with our monthly book club meeting on Monday, May 3, at noon.

This month, we’ll be discussing “Station Eleven” by the novelist Emily St. John Mandel. Just bring a chair, a mask, and your love of reading! In the event of rain, we’ll have to hold the meeting virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to join us, give us a call at 518-429-8354 or an email at to register for this program.

The very next day, on Tuesday, May 4, at 6 p.m., we’ll have our first ukulele meetup of the year out in the park. Please bring a chair, a sweater, a music stand if you have one, a mask, and your uke! Masks should be worn, especially while singing, and all participants are expected to maintain social distance throughout. In the event of rain, this program will be cancelled. We’re very much looking forward to seeing folks in person again, so please join us!

Village-wide Garage Sale

Altamont Elementary School’s annual Village-wide Garage Sale is back this year on Saturday, May 1. There will be some differences this year in acknowledgement of the ongoing pandemic: The won’t be any food trucks, or vendors in Orsini Park as there have been in the past, in order to reduce crowds. For the same reason, I am sorry to report, the library has decided not to participate either, and so we will not be accepting book donations this year.

We encourage all of our usual book donors to support the PTA’s largest fundraiser of the year by registering with the PTA and holding their own book sale. You can pick up a registration form here at the library in our entryway or by sending an email to .

Meanwhile, we still have a ton of books here that we’d love to send to a new home. We will be holding regular smaller book sales throughout the summer, and we’ll announce details about that soon.

But, if you are holding a garage sale, and would like to supplement your wares with some of ours, send me an email at and I’ll put together a box of books that you can sell at your garage sale on May 1. If you want to donate the proceeds from the sale of those books to the library, great! If not, that’s fine too. Either way, we hope you have a great sale!