Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, October 13, 2021
As demonstrated by last week’s wonderful Founders Day celebration put on by the Altamont Village Archives and Museum, we live in a place with a long history.
Conducting oral history interviews last week, I heard dozens of great stories about Altamont and the surrounding area, but our good friends Thom Breitenbach and Tom Capuano have been busy over the past year collecting a different kind of stories: Ghost stories!
Specifically, they’ve been seeking out ghost stories that occur in and around Altamont. They’ve collected over 70 stories into a new book called “True Ghost Stories From Altamont & Surrounds” and just in time for Halloween, they’ll be holding an event where you can purchase the book here at the library.
Join Tom and Thom on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m. to learn about all the creepy, spooky, frightening, and/or simply unexplainable things that your friends and neighbors have seen here over the years.
Ancestry.com
from home
Speaking of those who have gone before us, as many library users know, Altamont Free Library (in addition to all the other libraries in Albany and Rensselaer) has for the past few years been able to provide our users with access to Ancestry.com and all of the historical and genealogical resources it contains, but only on the computers in the library itself.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, access to Ancestry.com has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders doing their research from home, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry. Remote access won’t last forever, though, and it’s currently scheduled to end in December, so now is the perfect time to do your family history research from the comfort of your own home.
You can log on with your library card here: https://www.uhls.org/ancestry.htm Thanks to the Upper Hudson Library System for working this out for us!
Story time at ARC
Since June, we’ve been doing our weekly Tuesday morning story times for children outside in Orsini Park or our back patio, and it’s been a ton of fun! Now that the weather is getting colder, we’re moving storytimes a few blocks away and indoors!
Starting on Tuesday, Oct. 26, please join us in the community room at Altamont Reformed Church at 129 Lincoln Ave. in Altamont on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. for a super fun morning of songs, stories, and activities!
We’re moving to ARC so that our Storytime families have lots of room to stretch out and distance themselves from one another. Since this is an indoor program, all participants over the age of two must wear masks for the duration of the program. Many thanks to Altamont Reformed Church for hosting us this fall and winter. We hope to see you there!