Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, September 5, 2013

For those who’d like an early start on an upcoming book discussion group, come into the Altamont Free Library and pick up a copy of Tell the Wolves I’m Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt.  The group will talk over this work on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.

The author Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, will be the topic on Monday, Oct. 7, at noon.  This is something new,  a daytime book group meeting.  We have high hopes.

All ages story time

With school starting soon it’s a good time for a reminder of a neat activity for your preschoolers.  It’s called story time. It takes place every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.  It includes a dynamic, exciting story, music, playing with others, a simple craft, and it’s all fun.

Board meets

The next regularly scheduled library board meeting is at 7 p.m., on Monday, Sept. 9.  The meetings are open and everyone is welcome to attend.

Genuine heroism

This month’s wall display in the library meeting room features the experiences of a young Knox resident in the Civil War.  He took part in the Battle of Cold Harbor, in Virginia, in 1854.  He was wounded in the leg and wrote a letter from the hospital home to his father.

The actual letter is part of the current display, and deserves to be read.  It displays more real courage, more valor, more true concern for others over self, than all the block buster movies opening in all the malls, during all the Labor Day weekends, ever.