Editing Hallettsville, Texas (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Hallettsville TX Library.jpg|thumb|Friench Simpson Memorial Library]]

Hallettsville is a center of the traditional domino game [[42 (dominoes)|Texas 42]]. It is home to the Texas Championship Domino Hall of Fame and hosts a State-Championship Straight Domino tournament every year in January, and a Texas State-Championship 42 Domino tournament in March.

Hallettsville hosts multiple Halls of Fame including the Central Texas Semipro Baseball Hall of Fame, Texas Fiddlers Hall of Fame and the Texas State Championship High School Rodeo Hall of Fame.  

Texas State Championship Fiddler's Frolics is a three day event on the fourth weekend in April with fiddlers from all over Texas competing for the title of Texas State Champion Fiddler.<ref name="Dominoes">{{cite news | url=http://www.traveltex.com/pg/Activity.aspx?id=57195429-ba79-465c-9b47-ea8fbbc19c0d | title=Texas Championship Domino Hall of Fame | publisher=Texas Tourism Department | access-date=8 January 2007 | archive-date=January 7, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107070615/http://www.traveltex.com/pg/Activity.aspx?id=57195429-ba79-465c-9b47-ea8fbbc19c0d | url-status=dead }}</ref> It also hosts the annual Kolache Fest the last weekend in September

Hallettsville is the founding home of the Texas and National High School Rodeo with one of the founders Alton Allen inventing the present Calf Roping Barrier, also known as “The Hallettsville Barrier”.

The Friench Simpson Memorial Library has served the residents of Hallettsville and Lavaca County for over 70 years. The modern library houses over 20,000 volumes and is a major source of local history and genealogy research for the area. Public-access computers with Internet connections are available for use at the library.  [http://hallettsvillelibrary.org]