{"id":93782,"date":"2018-05-21T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93782"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:16:20","slug":"civil-war-weekend-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93782","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Weekend comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Civil War Weekend comes to an end<\/strong><\/p>\n

When circumstances in life change, one must let go of previously valued situations and\u00a0move on toward new horizons. Such is the case with Peterboro Civil War Weekend, and it is\u00a0with mixed emotions that the Civil War Weekend Committee of the Smithfield Community\u00a0Association has decided to terminate the event.<\/p>\n

We can look far enough ahead to predict the eventual outcome of this event, but we would\u00a0rather look back on the events we have joyously hosted and remember them for their\u00a0success and fond purpose they served. It is our pleasure to announce that we will continue\u00a0to provide and expand the Civil War Living History Education Day for fifth-grade students\u00a0from area schools.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the many re-enactors, community members, sponsors, and volunteers for your\u00a0important contributions to the success of the Peterboro Civil War Weekend over these past\u00a025 years. Your dedication and passion have kept the event alive. We want to give special\u00a0recognition to Beth Spokowsky, founder of the event, for her vision and commitment from\u00a0the beginning.<\/p>\n

Our focus now will be to continue to provide programs that promote Peterboro\u2019s historical\u00a0 legacy of passionate concern for the recognition of every human being\u2019s innate, natural\u00a0right to be treated equitably. We invite any like\u2013minded persons to join us in the\u00a0development of emerging perspectives and ideas for programs that encourage public\u00a0thought and commitment regarding the equitable treatment of our fellow humans.<\/p>\n

We look back with pride and forward with hope. Please contact us if you would like to help\u00a0with future programs, or have ideas you would like to share.<\/p>\n

The Board of Directors of Smithfield Community Association \/ Gerrit Smith Estate National\u00a0Historic Landmark has accepted and approved of the recommendation of its Civil War\u00a0Committee to terminate the event. The Board wished to extend thanks to everyone who has\u00a0contributed, whether with a gift of time, knowledge or money over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civil War Weekend comes to an end When circumstances in life change, one must let go of previously valued situations and\u00a0move on toward new horizons. Such is the case with Peterboro Civil War Weekend, and it is\u00a0with mixed emotions that the Civil War Weekend Committee of the Smithfield Community\u00a0Association has decided to terminate the event. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-ooC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/12th-U.S.-Reenactors-During-Firing-Dril-at-2013-Peterboro-Civil-War-Weekend..jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93782","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=93782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}