{"id":165398,"date":"2023-04-23T23:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=165398"},"modified":"2023-04-23T23:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:51:42","slug":"historical-society-has-new-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/23\/historical-society-has-new-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Historical Society has new offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April marks the beginning of the 2023 Van Wert County Historical Society season and this year&#8217;s theme is \u201cCollaboration\u201d. The historical society is working hard to form new partnerships with local businesses, schools, and organizations to achieve the mission of \u201cPreserving Our History and Educating Future Generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rock-and-Roll-scene-4-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165400\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>VWCHS will be at Van Wert Main Street&#8217;s Chocolate Walk on Friday, April 28, and will have a table at The Well offering chocolate and a little history to participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VWCHS and Wassenberg Art Center will co-host a special presentation at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30 &#8212; Van Wert\u2019s Rock and Roll Scene 1960s. Host David Baker will welcome special guests Henry \u201cH-Bomb\u201d Weck of Brownsville Station, Mel Deal of Blueberry Syrcus, Ron Ley of The Voyagers, Bob Skevington of Thunderstone, and Russell Schloagbaum, who toured with Rod Stewart and the Faces and The Rolling Stones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a free event and a large crowd is expected, so come early to find seating, 214 S. Washington St. in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 1-3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, Van Wert Area Playing with Paints will help with a special fundraiser, Coffee &amp; Tea Painting Party, in the museum annex. This can be a great Mother\u2019s Day gift. Spend some special time creating a fun painting with your mom on the Saturday of Mother\u2019s Day weekend. Contact Theresa Mengerink at 419.203.3359 for registration details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also online donations and\/or membership opportunities through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=GJP9E8384U22Y\">PayPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information April marks the beginning of the 2023 Van Wert County Historical Society season and this year&#8217;s theme is \u201cCollaboration\u201d. The historical society is working hard to form new partnerships with local businesses, schools, and organizations to achieve the mission of \u201cPreserving Our History and Educating Future Generations.\u201d VWCHS will be at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 16:32:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165428,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165398\/revisions\/165428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}