The Butterfield Library in Cold Spring on June 4 held its annual Big Truck Day.
Photos by Anita Peltonen

Emergency workers at Butterfield Library in Cold Spring for Big Truck Day.

Butterfield Library Director Gillian Thorpe said that despite the forecast for rain (it held off for a few hours), the event was "going great! Lots of people came early." 

Little trucks in front of the library, big trucks in back.

Kids making trucks and castles in the Reading Garden

Big trunks, as well as trucks.

Turning kids into tigers on Big Truck Day is Ruth Ann Cullinan Barr, Secretary of the Board of Friends of Butterfield Library.

Big Truck Day at Butterfield Library included an ambulance, bouncy castle, and hot dogs in the back parking lot. 

One of the big trucks kids got to visit was a big ambulance.

Little Truck art table.


Digging in at Big Truck Day. (Then, dumping out and beginning again.)

Toy construction vehicles--and the fresh pile of dirt--stayed popular throughout Big Truck Day.

Investigator Robert P. Tichy Sr. of the Putnam County sheriff's office. The police badges were for kids who signed up for Safe Child inside Butterfield

Signing up for Safe Child