Altamont Library Notes for Saturday, December 10, 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. If you’d like to receive the newsletter by email every month, you can sign up on our website, or get in touch with us at 861-7239 or by email at and we’ll sign you up.

Library Lights

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our 19th annual Library Lights campaign. We had a lovely little ceremony for the lighting of the Orsini Park Gazebo last Sunday featuring the reading of the 179 names of friends and loved ones in whose honor lights were dedicated. You can find a full list of all of our honorees on our website at AltamontFreeLibrary.org.

Trivia night

This 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.  

Exhibit closing

If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to check out the exhibition in the village hall — For the People: 100 Years of Community Enrichment from the Altamont Free Library — you still have a little while longer to see it. The exhibit, which details a century of AFL history is closing on Dec. 16, so don’t wait too much longer. The hallway gallery is open weekdays during village office hours 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. until Dec. 16. It will also be open Sunday, Dec. 11 from noon to 4 p.m. for the Victorian Holiday Weekend Celebration.

Kids craft

With the holidays quickly approaching, we have so many people to get gifts for and there’s no better gift than one made by hand. On Wednesday, Dec. 14 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., bring your young folks to the library to make presents for all the special people in their lives. We’ll have all the crafting supplies you’ll need and a bunch of ideas to spark their imaginations. Register in advance, please, by stopping in or calling us at 861-7239.