Altamont Library Notes for Friday, May 13, 2016
— Photo from Joe Burke
Patrons page through books offered for sale Saturday at the Altamont Free Library, part of the village-wide garage sale.
Last weekend we took part in the Altamont village-wide garage sale. It was so wonderful to see so many of you turn out in the beautiful weather for the sale.
The library received a totally staggering number of donations for both our book and garage sales, and we raised a tremendous amount to support the important programs that the library offers.
As with so much else that the library does, we had so much help from the library's staff, trustees, and volunteers and we would not have had the phenomenal success we had without all their help. Thank you all for your time, energy, and back muscles.
Memorial Day
The library will be proudly marching in the Altamont Memorial Day Parade on Sunday, 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 to add your mark to our banner. Thanks for lending a hand.
Book discussion
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 22, 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.
United Nations potluck
Please join us at 6 p.m., on Monday, May 23, for another in our series of fantastic Eat Around the World Potluck suppers.This month we’re letting you choose the country or region you want to represent.
Choose a favorite recipe you’ve made before or one from a country that we haven’t gotten around to yet. Don’t forget to bring a dish to share, and if you don’t already have a favorite recipe, you can always pick up a cookbook here.
“Plants Feed Me”
Did you ever want to make delicious, healthy food from vegetables you can grow yourself? Please join us on Tuesday, May 31, at 3 p.m., for a fun event for 4-to-7 year olds based on the book “Plants Feed Me” by Lizzy Rockwell.
Led by master gardeners Ronnie Siegel and Virginia Dorwaldt of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, this program will be limited to seven children, so please call the library at 861-7239 to register in advance.