Holmes Public Library

We’re excited to share that Holmes Public Library has been selected as one of 40 participants in the Sustainable Libraries Initiative’s Community Resilience Through Small & Rural Libraries Pilot Program!

This opportunity will help us strengthen our role as a community resource and build resilience for the future. We’re honored to represent Halifax and look forward to learning, collaborating, and bringing new ideas back to our community.

Join us as we chat with Sana Javeri Kadri and Asha Loupy about The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook, which celebrates beautiful, simple, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms, on Tuesday, June 23rd at 2 PM ET via digital live-stream in partnership with the Holmes Public Library. This event is proudly sponsored by the Friends of the Holmes Public Library!

Register and ask questions of the author here: https://libraryc.org/holmespubliclibrary/164556

During the event, and within 15 minutes of it ending, you can click the link below the video to enter to win a copy of the book!

Join us for a presentation on Basic Pruning on Thursday, June 25th, at 1pm. Learn how to shape, correct, and support the long-term health and visual balance of woody shrubs such as boxwoods, hydrangeas, holly, lilac, and more!

Join us, Thursday July 9th at 5:30PM, for an Author Talk with local Author Steve Littlefield on his latest book "The Rucksack We Carry." Steve, Halifax local, retired army combat veteran, Veteran Service Officer, former law enforcement officer, and a graduate student in mental health counseling. Steve uses the metaphor of “the Rucksack” to describe the invisible emotional weight carried by veterans, police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel, healthcare workers, corrections officers, dispatchers, and others that routinely operate under stress and trauma.

Tomorrow! Hold onto your heart-patterned boxers! Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) Dungeon Crawler Carl series, joins us to chat about his latest book, A Parade of Horribles, on Thursday, June 11th at 7 PM ET via digital live-stream in partnership with the Holmes Public Library. This event is proudly sponsored by the Friends of the Holmes Public Library!

Register and ask questions of the author here: https://libraryc.org/holmespubliclibrary/162084

Join us today from 10am-1pm for our annual Friends books sale! If you can't make it today, know this will be up all next week as well! We look forward to seeing you at the Friends Annual Book Sale!

Hold onto your heart-patterned boxers! Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) Dungeon Crawler Carl series, joins us to chat about his latest book, A Parade of Horribles, on Thursday, June 11th at 7 PM ET via digital live-stream in partnership with the Holmes Public Library. This event is proudly sponsored by the Friends of the Holmes Public Library!

Register and ask questions of the author here: https://libraryc.org/holmespubliclibrary/162084

Join us tomorrow for a fascinating discussion with Smithsonian Curator Mary Savig on the history and significance of craft at state fairs—from blue-ribbon quilts to sculpted butter cows, and so much more, on Wednesday, June 3rd at 2 PM ET via digital live-stream in partnership with The Holmes Public Library. This program is proudly supported by the Friends of the Holmes Public Library!

Register and ask questions of the author here:

https://libraryc.org/holmespubliclibrary/161466

Join us tomorrow, at 11am for Peonies 101 with guest speaker Stephani Teran from Peaceful pines Farm and Floral. Learn how to grow your own peonies and use them in beautiful arrangements!

Join us Monday, June 1st, at 11am for Peonies 101 with guest speaker Stephani Teran from Peaceful pines Farm and Floral. Learn how to grow your own peonies and use them in beautiful arrangements!