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Altamont's Home Front Cafe

posted Apr 25, 2011 | map this
Home Front Cafe Cindy

The Home Front Cafe -- lunch, with a side order of history.

By Liz Clancy Lerner

Artifacts of war are usually reserved for museums and memorials, but for the last 14 years they've been showing up in the form of letters, flags and photos at Altamont's Home Front Café.

The cafe's owner, Cindy Pollard, feels that paying tribute to veterans is something of a calling.

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tags: Altamont, food, people

One happy alpaca

posted May 21, 2010

This is great: Teri Conroy has posted video of Griffin, her rescued alpaca, during his first time out with the other llamas at her Wunsapana Farm in Altamont (be sure to check out the before picture):

We're pretty sure we saw him smiling.

[via Naomi]

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tags: Altamont, animals, people

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