Piermont has one library, one pier and a Piermont Avenue with a jazz room on it, and this week the library and the club are both busy. Here is what is on, with the details a resident needs.

Sunday: the library book sale kicks off

The Piermont Public Library's book sale opens on Sunday, November 15, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library, 25 Flywheel Park West, and then continues for the following week during regular open hours. The library collected donations for the sale through November 7, so the tables are stocked with what the village itself read this year. The library's number is 845-359-4595.

All month: Stage Light, photographs by a Piermont neighbor

While the sale is on, the library's walls hold Stage Light: Photographs of Dancers, Musicians and Performers by Stephanie Berger, which opened on November 8 and stays on view throughout November. Berger has spent more than thirty years photographing dance, theater and music in New York City as house photographer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, the Park Avenue Armory, Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for many years as a culture photographer for the New York Times. Her 2016 book on Merce Cunningham is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Dia Art Foundation and MASS MoCA. Before any of that she climbed bridges for the city's Department of Transportation, photographing infrastructure at risk. She has lived in Piermont for 21 years.

The opening reception doubled as a concert. Annamae Goldstein, a violinist who grew up in Blauvelt, studied at Juilliard from age 11 and has played in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra since 1990, performed with Diego Garcia, a Colombian-born conductor and cellist on the faculty at NYU Steinhardt. Both live in Piermont. The photographs remain up through the end of the month during library hours.

Monday: jazz at the Turning Point

The Turning Point at 468 Piermont Avenue keeps its Monday night jazz series going on November 16 from 8 to 11 p.m., with the John Richmond Quartet. The series runs under the name Doc Richmond's Jazz at the Turning Point, and the club streams and archives its shows through its Piermont.club page for anyone who cannot get there on a Monday. The club's own site carries the full jazz schedule and a mailing list.

Coming up

The library has already set the date for its Annual Holiday Gift of Art Show, with an opening on Sunday, December 6, from 2 to 4 p.m., and a Fun with Lego session for children on Thursday, December 3, at 4:30 p.m. Both are at 25 Flywheel Park West.

Getting there

Piermont sits at the foot of the Palisades on the Hudson, reached from the Palisades Interstate Parkway by way of Route 9W and Piermont Avenue. The library, at 25 Flywheel Park West, and the Turning Point, at 468 Piermont Avenue, are a short walk apart in the center of the village.

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