Altamont Library Notes for Friday, May 6, 2016

This Saturday, May 7, the Altamont Free Library will hold our annual book sale in conjunction with the PTA’s village-wide garage sale. In addition, this year, we will hold a garage sale to raise funds for the library.

From noon on Wednesday, May 4 until 4 p.m. on Friday, May 6, we will be very grateful to accept your books which will either be added to the library’s collection or sold to raise money for library programs. We will begin accepting donations of garage sale items in good condition (no clothes, please.) on Thursday, May 5.

Please don’t forget to visit us during the sale to find your next favorite book.

Memorial Day parade banner

The library will be proudly marching in the Altamont Memorial Day Parade on May 22, and we need a hand in making a banner for the parade. In fact, we need 100 hands.

To celebrate our 100th anniversary, we’ll be making a banner with 100 hand prints, so please stop by the library during the book sale on Saturday, May 7, to add your mark to our banner. Thanks for lending a hand.

Book club

On Monday, May 16, at 7 p.m., the Penultimate Monday Book Club will meet to discuss the bestselling  new novel “My Name is Lucy Barton” by Elizabeth Strout. (Even though it’s the Penultimate Monday group, we’re meeting a week early this month since we’ll be closed on Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day.

This wonderful and bittersweet story details the strained relationship between a mother and her daughter. There’s much to discuss about this book, and it comes highly recommended, so please join us.

Springtime bird walk

On Sunday, May 21, our own Dan Capuano will once again lead a bird-watching expedition along Brandle Road. Please join us at 9 a.m., here at the library for a one-hour walk around the village to see what we can see and learn about our bird neighbors.

We’ll have a few extra sets of binoculars, if you’d like to use them, and first-timers and young folks are encouraged to attend.