Artifacts were hard to come by in creating an exhibit of the Altamont Free Library’s 100-year history because it moved so often. So exhibit's curator relied on text.

ALTAMONT — The Altamont Archives and Museum will host an exhibit beginning in about April that will highlight several important recent gifts to the collection.

The exhibit is to be called “Given in Trust: Recent Gifts to the Museum Collections.”

“The village is… excited to celebrate our cultural heritage," said Altamont's mayor of the just-published book, Images of America: Altamont, a labor of love for a team of volunteers.

Marijo Dougherty, curator of the village archives and museum, has displayed an auto-racing poster for the upcoming Fair Week, as well as reproduced pictures of Lee Wallard, a famed dirt track racer who won the 1951 Indianapolis 500.

Stephen A. Venear was born Athanasium Frank Venearski, on Feb. 2, 1887 in Chemerootza, Russia and arrived in America in 1908, at the Port of New York, on the ship Statendam out of Rotterdam, Holland. He was 21 years old and already a trained nurse.