Library Events

Please join us for a fun morning filled with sensory play! This event is specifically curated for those with sensory sensitivities.
We will have stations set up in a quiet area that are full of sensory items to engage with!
This event is targeted towards children though all ages are welcome.
A sensory craft and sensory toy will be included.
Light refreshments will be served

Notice is hereby given that the regular business meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Hattiesburg Petal & Forrest County is held on the last Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. in the Library Boardroom, located at 329 Hardy Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

 

Meeting adjustment for 2024:

MAY 2024 MEETING -- will be held on Monday, May 20, 2024

 

The meetings of the Board of Trustees are open to the public, and the Board welcomes the interest of the community.  Anyone who needs to address the Board is invited to attend the meeting and make a public comment.  Each person is limited to three minutes.  If you would like to attend the meeting and address the Board of Trustees, please call 601.584.3162 to have your business placed on the agenda.

 

To contact the Board of Trustees directly, you may email trustees@hpfc.lib.ms.us or

send a letter to: 

Board of Trustees

The Library of Hattiesburg Petal & Forrest Co.

329 Hardy Street

Hattiesburg, MS 39401

Join us EVERY Wednesday at 10am at our Hattiesburg Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Petal branch has the same storytime at 10am every Thursday :) 

Join us EVERY Thursday at 10am at our Petal Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Hattiesburg branch has the same storytime at 10am every Wednesday :) 

Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Album Description:
Nevermind became a surprise success in late 1991, largely due to the popularity of its first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album also produced three other successful singles: "Come as You Are", "Lithium", and "In Bloom". The Recording Industry Association of America has certified the album Diamond (over 10 million copies shipped), and the album has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Nevermind was responsible for bringing Alternative Rock to a large mainstream audience, and has been ranked highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time by publications such as Rolling Stone and Time.

Join us EVERY Wednesday at 10am at our Hattiesburg Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Petal branch has the same storytime at 10am every Thursday :) 

Join us EVERY Thursday at 10am at our Petal Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Hattiesburg branch has the same storytime at 10am every Wednesday :) 

A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Description:

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

Join us EVERY Wednesday at 10am at our Hattiesburg Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Petal branch has the same storytime at 10am every Thursday :) 

Join us EVERY Thursday at 10am at our Petal Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Hattiesburg branch has the same storytime at 10am every Wednesday :) 

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
*Subtitled in English

Notice is hereby given that the regular business meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Hattiesburg Petal & Forrest County is held on the last Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. in the Library Boardroom, located at 329 Hardy Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

 

Meeting adjustment for 2024:

MAY 2024 MEETING -- will be held on Monday, May 20, 2024

 

The meetings of the Board of Trustees are open to the public, and the Board welcomes the interest of the community.  Anyone who needs to address the Board is invited to attend the meeting and make a public comment.  Each person is limited to three minutes.  If you would like to attend the meeting and address the Board of Trustees, please call 601.584.3162 to have your business placed on the agenda.

 

To contact the Board of Trustees directly, you may email trustees@hpfc.lib.ms.us or

send a letter to: 

Board of Trustees

The Library of Hattiesburg Petal & Forrest Co.

329 Hardy Street

Hattiesburg, MS 39401

Book Description:
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.

As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly drawn to one another through their shared interest in the horse - one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America's greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America"-- Provided by publisher.

Join us EVERY Wednesday at 10am at our Hattiesburg Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Petal branch has the same storytime at 10am every Thursday :) 

Join us EVERY Thursday at 10am at our Petal Branch for storytime fun!
Storytimes consists of songs, rhymes, reading books, and always a craft to follow!
The age range is children 5 years old or younger but all are welcome.
Additionally, our Hattiesburg branch has the same storytime at 10am every Wednesday :) 

Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

Tweens and Teens will create Taylor Swift-themed friendship bracelets to trade with friends and other fans!
**Because this program uses supplies that are unsuitable for small children (such as tiny beads), this event will be for those aged 11-18.  

"So make the friendship bracelets
Take the moment and taste it
You've got no reason to be afraid"

- "You're On Your Own, Kid," Taylor Swift