{"id":77963,"date":"2017-02-19T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77963"},"modified":"2017-02-19T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:08:49","slug":"madison-county-historian-to-interview-veterans-from-world-war-ii-and-korean-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77963","title":{"rendered":"Madison County historian to interview veterans from World War II and\u00a0Korean War"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34991\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=34991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34991\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Matt-Urtz-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Matt-Urtz-for-web.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Matt-Urtz-for-web-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Urtz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Continuing the Madison County Historian\u2019s Office Local Interview series Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz will be interviewing two veterans in March.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m., the Smithfield Community Center will host a special\u00a0presentation with Korean War Veteran Lloyd Stoker and Madison County Historian Matthew\u00a0Urtz.<\/p>\n<p>Stoker was one of five young men who enlisted in the Air Force from Smithfield on the same day. Stoker served as a tail gunner on a B-26 bomber during the war, spending over a year in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, March 11, at 2 p.m., the Morrisville Public Library will host a special presentation with <!--more-->WWII Veteran Horace Keller and Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz.<\/p>\n<p>Keller will talk about his time in the service as a member of the 237th Combat Engineers, building bridges in Germany. After the war was over, Keller returned to New York and attended the State University of New York Agricultural &amp; Technical Institute in Morrisville, staying in Madison County after he completed his graduation.<\/p>\n<p>There is no charge for either of these events. For more information, contact Madison\u00a0County Historian Matthew Urtz via phone at 315-366- 2453 or email matthew.urtz@madisoncounty.ny.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the Madison County Historian\u2019s Office Local Interview series Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz will be interviewing two veterans in March. On Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m., the Smithfield Community Center will host a special\u00a0presentation with Korean War Veteran Lloyd Stoker and Madison County Historian Matthew\u00a0Urtz. Stoker was one of five young men who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}