Altamont Library Notes for Monday, December 5, 2016
There’s so much going on over the next month and so much competing for your Holiday Season attention. Check out all of our December happenings in the brand new edition of the Library Newsletter at the library or on our website.
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Juice and Jammies Story Time
On Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m., put on your pj’s and join Ms. Erika for a pre-bedtime story, snack, and craft! This low-key storytime will be just the thing to prepare your young folks to count some sheep.
We’ve been having a lot of fun with these J&J storytimes, so it looks like this will be a twice-per-month addition to our usual Tuesday and Wednesday morning storytime rotation. The next J&J will be on Dec. 29.
Gingerbread houses
One of our favorite annual events for young folks is taking place soon. Come decorate your very own holiday gingerbread house on Sunday, Dec. 4, from noon to 3 p.m. The gingerbread houses will be displayed at the Victorian Holidays Celebration at the Altamont Masonic Lodge and will be available afterwards for you to pick up and display (or eat!) yourself.
We’ll have all the supplies you’ll need to make a creative and delicious holiday treat. So that we’ll know how much candy to have on hand, please stop in or call the library at (518) 861-7239 to register in advance.
Library Lights
This holiday season, you can honor the memory of a loved one with a holiday light on the Altamont Village Gazebo! Lights cost $3 each ($3.50 if you’d like a postcard sent to the honoree’s family) and all proceeds go to benefit Altamont Free Library.
The honorees names will be read out at the lighting ceremony this Sunday and will be published on the library’s website. Look for the submission form this week in The Altamont Enterprise or stop into the library in person to donate.
Whether you donate or not, please join us for our annual gazebo lighting ceremony this Sunday, Dec. 4, at 4:30 p.m. Thank you!
Gratitude
In December, both of our book-discussion groups will be reading the same book, “Gratitude” by Oliver Sacks. Sacks was a beloved and respected author and neurologist who produced a short series of essays on the subject of gratitude in the last months of his life.
It is a short book and a quick read, but a profound one, and one that will hopefully stick with you long after you’ve returned it to the library. We will be meeting to discuss the book on Monday, Dec. 5, at noon and on Monday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. If you’ve ever wanted to join either of our book clubs, this would be an ideal opportunity.
Trivia Night
On Thursday, Dec. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m., Trivia Night is back by popular demand! Make a team, study up and BYOB to this mind-twisting trivia contest.
Entrance is $5 and the winning team takes half of the door. Contestants must be 21 and up, please.
Victorian Holiday Celebration
Please visit us during the Victorian Holiday Celebration on Sunday, Dec. 11. The library will be open from noon to 5 p.m., and we’ll be hosting storytellers, authors, and artists with gifts for sale.
Don’t forget to be here at 5 p.m. for a very special train arrival with a very special passenger! (I don’t think anyone told Santa that the library isn’t a train station anymore! Let’s keep that a village secret, shall we?)
Quilt raffle
While you’re here for Victorian Holidays, you’ll have one final opportunity to buy a ticket for our quilt-raffle fundraiser. Our beautiful, prize-winning, hand-stitched Centennial quilt made by the fabulous Train Station Quilters will be raffled off on Sunday, Dec. 11, during the Victorian Holidays Celebration. Tickets are a dollar for one or six for $5 and all proceeds go to benefit Altamont Free Library.