Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, December 13, 2018
The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
An eye for detail: A young decorator carefully sets a candy atop her gingerbread house — actually made of graham crackers — at the Masonic Hall at 138 Maple Ave. on Saturday. The Altamont Free Library has been organizing this event for “probably 10 years,” said library Director Joe Burke, in which the houses decorated by children are displayed during the Victorian Holiday celebration.
The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
Royal icing: A child carefully adds royal icing to the roof of a gingerbread house to be shown during the Victorian Holiday at the Masonic Hall, where Christmas trees were also on display. The gingerbread event is run by the library. The houses were built by friend of the library Ruth Dickinson and a group of her friends, said Altamont Free Library Director Joe Burke, so that they would be all ready for kids to decorate the day before the annual village-wide Victorian Holiday.