- window painting of Main Street, Chatham. Roger Mason �2014
 

 
Roger Mason's paintings continue on exhibit at the bookstore through January 12, 2015 - the new window painting of Main Street on view day and night!

And here's to the gladness of this word picture of Chatham painted by poet, Peter Kane Dufault -  
    
I look out over half an acre  
of tarmac and a gas station  
to St. James', where the big bell  
clamors nine times in its tower  
of red sandstone, scattering pigeons,  
gathering families, in blues, greens, vermilions  
that blink out in the vestibule  
like toys tumbled into a box;

and further on, the late shoppers
crowding both sides of the street,
each storefront a little glacier
calving white parcels, to bob
in the pedestrian torrent. . .  

 
              
          - excerpt from "Christmas Figures (Chatham, N.Y.)"
                             from New Things Come Into The World
                                 � Peter Kane Dufault (1923-2013)

Good cheer to our neighbors and visitors through the holidays!
Nicole, Thomas, Wendy, Patti, Gloria, Dianne and Percy
 
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Saturday, December 13, 10-4 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
10-2
* Horse and wagon rides on Main Street

11-2
* A visit from Santa at American Pie

11:30 
* Judy Staber reads How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
     at the Chatham Bookstore


Noon
* Children's Parade
     Lines up outside the Morris Memorial at 11:45

2:30
* Free screening of the holiday classic "Elf" at the                     Crandell Theatre  

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Sunday, December 7, 2-4 pm
Carlo DeVito will read from his new book, Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Dickens' Legendary "A Christmas Carol."
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Thursday, December 11, 5-7 pm 

Conrad Vispo, an ecologist and educator at the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will read from his new book, The Nature of the Place: A History of Living with the Land in Columbia County, NY 
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Both events are at the Chatham Bookstore, 27 Main Street, Chatham, New York. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and a Q&A follow the readings. These events are free. Refreshments will be served.  
                          
If you can't come to an event, but would like a signed copy of a book, email or call us at 518.392.3005 and we'll put one aside for you.

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Listen to bookseller Dianne Ortmann's recent Book Picks on WAMC!

HOLIDAY HOURS 
NOW THROUGH CHRISTMAS
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Monday-Thursday, 9:30-5
   Friday & Saturday 9:30-7
Sunday, 11-4
 
12/24 & 12/31 9:30-2
CLOSED 12/25, 12/26 & 1/1/2015