Petworth
Neighborhood Library

The Civil War determined what kind of nation America would be by answering two major, unresolved issues:
Would America be a confederation of independent states or "an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and would this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, continue to exist as the largest slave-holding country in the world?”*  

The game of basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Mass. in December 1891. The first baskets had bottoms, and so, after every basket, the ball had to be retrieved with a ladder.

Naismith later went on to coach basketball at the University of Kansas; Senda Berenson Abbott introduced basketball to women at Smith College in 1892. 

Petworth Library currently has a display of books about basketball, including:

It's never too late to join the Petworth Kids' Book Club...

Stop by and grab a copy of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. You will giggle at a group of sixth-grade Star Wars fans who try to uncover whether their classmate's wise origami Yoda is just an ordinary paper puppet or if he really uses "the force" to predict the future!

Wow, we had so much fun at our Halloween Party!

We listened to The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, danced the "Monster Mash," and had a parade and trick-or-treating.

If you missed it, make sure you come next year!