Altamont Library Notes for Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Isn’t it amazing how quickly time starts passing as you approach the Holiday Season? With Thanksgiving behind us, we’ve got lots of things happening at Altamont Free Library in a relatively short span of time. If you’d like help in keeping up, please like us on Facebook or Instagram, where you’ll find news and information on everything going on at the library.

Bundle up!

Put on your snow boots, and meet us outside for the Children’s Nature Program. On Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 11a.m., please join Thacher Park naturalist Shannon Duerr to read a story about the natural world around us, and do some super fun, science-y activities. We’ll meet at the Orsini Park gazebo, and be outside for about 45 minutes, so bring your mittens!

First Monday

Book Club

Do you love to read? Do you love talking about what you’ve read with other interesting and smart people? If so, please join us for the next meeting of the First Monday Book Club on Monday, Dec. 5, at noon. If you would like to join us for our next meeting, please call us at 518-861-7239 or email us at and we’ll make sure that you get all the details.

At that meeting, we’ll be discussing the classic children’s book “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott (which turns out to be way longer than I remember it being!). There will be plenty to discuss, so call today to reserve your copy and join us!

Ukulele Group

Do you uke? If you do, even if you’re not very good yet, please join our monthly ukulele meetup. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., and we’d love for you to join us. For the past few months, we’ve been meeting in the Orsini Park gazebo, but it’s too cold and too dark to keep doing that, so we’ll be meeting indoors this time.

Bring a song or two to share with the group if you like. This is a fun, inviting way of growing as a player, picking up hits and tips, learning new tunes, and meeting fellow ukesters. We hope to see uke there!

Library Lights

Feel that nip in the air? That’s a pretty good sign that the holidays are creeping up on us. We’re about a few weeks away from the Altamont WinterFest Celebration, so it’s time to start thinking about lighting up the Orsini Park Gazebo!

This holiday season, honor the memory of a friend, loved one, or pet with a light on the Altamont Village Gazebo in Orsini Park. The lights cost $5 each and all proceeds benefit the Altamont Free Library.

The honorees’ names will be read during the annual lighting ceremony on Friday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m., and be published on the library’s website. Forms are available at the library and in this week’s edition of The Altamont Enterprise. Please join us at the gazebo on Friday, December 9th for what is always a lovely and moving ceremony.

Gingerbread

house decorating

It's almost time for one of our favorite annual traditions: Decorating gingerbread houses! Please bring your young folks and join us on Saturday, Dec. 10, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. to make your very own gingerbread house to display at the Altamont WinterFest Celebration the next day.

Sign up at the library, email me at , or call us at 518-861-7239 to register in advance. Space is limited at this always fun event, so sign up today!