Altamont Library Notes for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
This past weekend, we finally completed a project that we’ve been working towards for a very long time: We’ve replaced all of the fluorescent lights in the library with energy efficient LEDs!
This change is calculated to save the library nearly 7,000 kilowatt hours of energy per year, and will save the library more than $750 per year in utility costs, which for us is a lot!
Even better, we won’t have to get the tallest guy we know to get up on the tallest ladder in the village anymore to replace the lightbulbs in our ceiling anymore, since these new light-emitting diodes are likely to last us for years and years!
We are very grateful to the town of Guilderland for its assistance in helping us secure the grant that paid for this project, which will make our library more environmentally and financially sustainable for years to come!
Fall Fun Day
Have you marked Saturday, Sept. 24, on your calendars yet? It’s Altamont Fall Fun Day!
Sponsored by Altamont Community Tradition, Fall Fun Day will have something for every member of your family, from games and bouncy houses for kids, to Altamont history walking tours, to music, crafts, and much more!
Come by at 11:30 a.m. for the unveiling of a temporary traveling mural.
Then come visit us in the park to record an oral history story for posterity. It could be a story about the train station, or about the library, or fall in Altamont, or anything else that you might like to record a story about for inclusion in our growing oral history collection!
It’s all happening in and around Orsini Park from noon to 4 p.m., so please join us!
Campion Exhibit
Speaking of temporary art exhibits, for the next month and a half or so, we’ll be hosting a really cool display in our foyer display case. Diane Campion is a local artist who works in many mediums, and we’ll be showing a collection of paintings and drawings that she has done in her extensive travels around the world.
Her travels journals are an inspirational and vibrant expression of the magic of seeing new places. Come check it out! Thank you, Diane, for letting us display a small bit of your incredible work!
Get Outside
Story Time
Please join us on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 11:30 a.m. for another wonderful outdoor nature story time with Thacher Park Nature Center educator Shannon Duerr. This time, we’ll be learning about trees and leaves and why they turn such beautiful colors in the fall!
We’ll read a story all about trees, have some leafy fun, and play some tree games! We’ll meet in the Orsini Park gazebo and be outdoors for about 45-minutes. In case of muddiness, you might want to wear your galoshes.