Thanks to your membership dollars, FRIENDS provides assistance to the library both through sponsoring events and through purchases.
Upcoming Friends Events are usually posted under Special Events on this web site.
Some annual and fundraising events:
- Crab Fest in September (sometimes with live music)
- General Annual Meeting in November (includes some form of entertainment)
- Scarecrow Design Contest in October
- Tag Sale in June (during Village Sock Hop)
- International Wine and Food Tasting in February
- Book Sale in September
Non-annual occasional/fundraising events:
- Raffles
- Silent Auctions
- Membership teas
- Discussions with authors
- Russian Ballet film and food tasting
- Scarecrow Design workshop in the fall
- Cooking demonstrations at “who’s cooking”
- Publication and sale: Piermont booklet, Three Centuries
- Children’s workshop: valentine cards for soldiers
- Sale: Piermont library book bags
- Two concerts partially funded
- Fakoli African dance and drum
- Rudresh Mahanthappa duo
- Series of Art Lectures
- Silent Auctions
- Book Sales
Museum Memberships
- Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Purchases for the library
(Responding to Library’s wish list):
- Museum Memberships
- Stacking chairs
- Book deposit box
- Book donation bin
- Disc repair machine
- Dollhouse furniture
- Scroll-down movie screen
- Study carrels and chairs
- Security/protection system
- Flip chairs for children’s room
- Book-and-puppet set for story time
- Gold-lettering signage for teen stacks
- Skid proof coating for Front Porch
- Electronic people counter (at library entrance)
- Funding music and theatre programs
- Sundry items for public facilities
- Freegal – downloadable music
- Bookshelf (partially funded)
- Glass door Display cabinet
- Stack Acrylic sign holders
- Holiday decorations
- Color Laser Printer
- Carpentry work
- Magazine rack
- Landscaping
- Snow Blower
- Tables
- Alarm system
- Media return bin
- Universal Class online continuing education
- Transparent Language Online
