Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, April 25, 2019

Our friends at Altamont Community Tradition will be busy this coming Saturday, April 27, running the annual Village-wide Green and Clean and they’d love to see you there too.

Meet at Orsini Park at 9 a.m. for a morning of raking, weeding, and tidying with your friends and neighbors. We have a beautiful village here, and all the more so when we all pitch in to keep it that way!

Icelandic Potluck

It’s almost time again for another of our ever popular Eat Around the World Potluck dinners! Come broaden your culinary horizons and share a meal a bunch of friendly people. This month we’re taking a trip to Iceland.

Please join us at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 29, to join in the festivities and bring a dish to share. If you don’t already have a favorite recipe from that part of the world, come on in and grab a cookbook!

Volunteers needed!

Altamont Free Library's annual book sale is coming up on Saturday, May 4, and we need you, (yes, you!) to help us make sure that it's our most successful sale ever! Between Wednesday, May 1, and Friday, May 3, we will be the grateful recipients of thousands and thousands of used books.

All those books have to be sorted, organized, and carried outside for the sale. On the day of the sale, we need all the friends we can get to help sell those books, keep our tables tidy, and break down at the end of the day.

If you can be of assistance, you will have our undying gratitude (and an early peak at donations!), so get in touch with us at 518-861-7239, by email at . This would be a great way for younger friends to rack up some community service hours, so if you have some of them, let them know. May the fourth be with you!

Book Sale

As mentioned above, on Saturday, May 4, Altamont Free Library will hold our annual book sale in conjunction with the PTA’s village-wide garage sale. From noon on Wednesday, May 1, until Friday, May 3, we will be very grateful to accept book, CD and DVD donations, which will either be added to the library’s collection or sold to raise money for library programs.

(Sorry, but we will not be running a garage sale this year, so household goods will not be accepted. Also, no encyclopedias please and thank you.) Please don’t forget to visit us during the sale to find your next favorite book!

Springtime Bird Walk

On Monday, May 6, local bird expert Dan Capuano will once again lead a bird-watching expedition along Brandle Road. Please join us at 9 a.m. here at the library for a one-hour walk around the village to see what we can see and learn about our bird neighbors.

We’ll have a few extra sets of binoculars, if you’d like to use them and first-time birdwatchers are encouraged to attend. We haven’t done one of these in a while, so if you haven’t had the opportunity to go on one of these expeditions, they really are a hoot.

Book talk

On Monday, May 6, the First Monday Book Club will meet at noon to discuss “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton. This classic novel, for which Wharton was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, centers on a love triangle in the 1870s Gilded Age in New York.

This is sure to be a fascinating discussion, so please join us.

“My Father’s Daughter”

We are surrounded here in Altamont by extraordinary individuals, and we are always lucky when some of them share their talent with us. One such is Carol Caloro, who has just published her memoir, “My Father’s Daughter.”

On Monday, May 6, at 7 p.m., Carol will be reading from her book and discussing her troubled childhood with an abusive motherHeading 3 and loving father and the surprising revelation she recently learned about her parents that has changed how she thinks of both of them.

Join us to celebrate her achievement, buy a copy, and have it signed. Light refreshments will be served.

Christine Capuano Exhibit

What a talented bunch of folks we have in this village! Over the past few months, we’ve been happy to display collections of paintings by Altamont-based artists Nancy Murphy and Joan Johnson, and now we have another homegrown artist to highlight.

Please visit a new exhibit of pastels by Christine Capuano in our community room, which will be hanging for the next several weeks. Christine is one of our favorite local artists. She even designed the library’s logo, so she has a special place in our heart. Come take a look! Thanks for brightening up the library, Christine!