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Black History Month

Black History Month Resource Round-up February is Black History Month, an annual celebration of the achievements by Black Americans. To help you celebrate, we compiled a list of resources to inform and help librarians with programming ideas to teach and recognize the important achievements of Black Americans. Do you have favorite resources that are not listed below? Please share them in the comments or email us at photos@nereg.lib.ms.us Online resources and LibGuides 400 Years of Read more…

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Staff Reviews: The Honeymoon Cottage by Lori Foster

Staff Reviews: The Honeymoon Cottage by Lori Foster The Honeymoon Cottage by Lori Foster is extremely enjoyable to read!  Yardley, a wedding planner in the small town of Cemetery, Indiana, and Travis, single big brother of the bride-to-be, are both very likeable characters.  Yardley’s best friend Mimi is struggling in her marriage with a new baby.  More relationships and a special surprise bond are formed throughout the story.  The people in the town demonstrate a Read more…

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Corinth Library Art Display by James D. Seigars

James Dale Seigars was born in Chicago, but he has lived in Mississippi since 1982.  A career veteran of the U.S. Army, he was active in the 1st Battalion, 145th Aviation Regiment based in Fort Rucker, Alabama.  He was married to the former Stephanie Prince for twelve years.  His wife passed away in 2016 from breast cancer. Before his retirement from the Army in 2012, he received a camera as a gift and has been Read more…

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Suggested Family Activity • National 🍪 Cookie Day

Tomorrow is National Cookie 🍪 Day so it’s the perfect time to start enjoying your favorite holiday cookies.  People love to bake, decorate, and (of course) eat cookies at any time of the year but December cookies are always the best!  Cookies make a great holiday treat for not only your family, but also other special people in your life – friends, co-workers, neighbors, or teachers at school.  Now is also a great time to Read more…

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Suggested Family Activity • Holiday ❄ 2021 Craft and Activity Packets

The holiday ❄ season is here and with it, another special packet of winter and holiday themed crafts and activities that have lots of fun things for everyone in your family to enjoy. Northeast Regional Library Holiday 2021 craft and activity packets include: A Family set that has a ⛄ ✔ Winter Activities To Do List, 📅 an Advent Reading Countdown,  🔎 a Scavenger Hunt, 📝 a holiday writing prompt, and other fun sheets. (A Family Read more…

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Punkin’ Chunkin in Tish County

I have Thanksgiving 🦃 with my sister Tish Hinkle every year, and part of the annual tradition is “Punkin’ Chunkin’.”  Tish enthusiastically decorates her home with real 🎃 pumpkins for fall, discarding them immediately after the 🍗 Thanksgiving meal. Their grandson Grayson became a part of this as soon as he could walk—he’s 9 years old now. His Maw Maw and Paw turned it into a fun adventure for him, so now every year we Read more…

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The Weirdest Literary Conspiracy 🔎 Theories People Really Believe

by Lucas Maxwell | BookRiot I used to love conspiracy theories as a kid. I found them a fun way to read and to kill time. Today? Not so much. I feel like conspiracy theories are, in a way, responsible for many terrible, terrible things, especially on social media. But we’re not here to talk about those kinds of things, we’re going to talk about literary conspiracy theories, ones I love. I’m going to discuss Read more…

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Suggested Family Activity • National Mississippi Day

Tomorrow is National Mississippi Day – a day to recognize the state we live in and some of the great things to be found here!  Mississippi is well known for being the home of wonderful writers, entertainers and athletes including Elvis Presley, Eudora Welty, John Grisham, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Roberts, LeAnn Rimes, Jerry Rice and Brett Favre, just to name a few.  How many famous Mississippians can you name?  And did Read more…

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Suggested Family Activity • National Native American Heritage Month

November has been National Native American Heritage Month.  The website for the event contains lots of great materials, such as selections of both audio and video programs, as well as a special resource section for teachers.  In collaboration with the Smithsonian and the National Museum of the American Indian, the website has a virtual presentation titled “Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces” that showcases quotes and testimonials from those who Read more…

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Suggested Family Activity • Leaf 🍂 Scavenger Hunt

Even though it is colder outside this week, you can still bundle up to have lots of fun with your family!  Fall days are a great time to go on a spider hunt around your yard and see how many cobwebs you can find.  Some spiders (the good kind that eat annoying insects, such as mosquitos) like to build large webs stretching along the ends of porches or from the eaves or gutters of your Read more…

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