{"id":183080,"date":"2024-08-29T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=183080"},"modified":"2024-08-29T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T03:20:43","slug":"opera-house-to-host-local-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/29\/opera-house-to-host-local-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera House to host local researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sutton-8-29-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183082\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Sutton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; It\u2019s an invitation to travel back to Civil War times to learn about Aaron Sutton, a Union solider from Rockford, who survived the Civil War, including stays in two Confederate prisons camps, by a mix of resourcefulness and down-home know-how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrison Frech, a local researcher and retired teacher, will reveal the amazing adventures of Sutton at the Convoy Opera House at 2 p.m. Sunday, September 15. Frech&#8217;s presentation drew upon Sutton&#8217;s own narrative account in his book &#8220;Prisoner of the Rebels in Texas,&#8221; and other texts and information provided by Sutton&#8217;s descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The free event will be held at the Convoy Opera House, 111 S. Main Street in downtown Convoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information CONVOY &#8212; It\u2019s an invitation to travel back to Civil War times to learn about Aaron Sutton, a Union solider from Rockford, who survived the Civil War, including stays in two Confederate prisons camps, by a mix of resourcefulness and down-home know-how. Harrison Frech, a local researcher and retired teacher, will [&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-183080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 16:19:19","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\/183080","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=183080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183083,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183080\/revisions\/183083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}