{"id":206781,"date":"2026-06-09T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206781"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:39:21","slug":"dar-wins-award-at-peony-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/dar-wins-award-at-peony-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"DAR wins award at Peony Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Isaac Van Wart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (IVW DAR) celebrated their heritage with a beautiful DAR America250 float at Saturday\u2019s Peony Festival parade in downtown Van Wert. Fortunately for all involved &#8211; parade participants and parade watchers &#8211; storms held off until later, which allowed the parade to go on as planned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAR members can prove their lineage back 250 years to a family member who fought or otherwise served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DAR-Peony-parade-I-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206782\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Isaac Van Wart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Husbands of Daughters of the American Revolution took part in Saturday&#8217;s Peony Festival parade. <em>Photos submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Their float featured the National DAR official logo for the 250th celebration. The members dressed in \u201cContinental\u201d costumes or official chapter 250th shirts. A DAR husband (HODAR) who built the float and a DAR husband (HODAR) who portrayed Isaac Van Wart were in the parade. The flot also featured a DAR member who portrayed Betsy Ross sewing the first flag of the United States of America, an antique yarn spinner with a member rolling yar, and the three recently acquired busts of American Revolutionary War Heroes John Paulding, David Williams and county\/city namesake Isaac Van Wart. The busts are 3-D printed by permission of the\u00a0John Henri Isaac Browere\u00a0Collection, where the original bronze busts are housed in the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members enjoyed the parade, handed out flags, candy and patriotic items and were pleased to hear they won the&nbsp;Grand Marshal Choice Award.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DAR-Peony-parade-II-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206783\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Isaac Van Wart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (IVW DAR) celebrated their heritage with a beautiful DAR America250 float at Saturday\u2019s Peony Festival parade in downtown Van Wert. Fortunately for all involved &#8211; parade participants and parade watchers &#8211; storms held off until later, which allowed the [&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-206781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 14:23:44","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\/206781","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=206781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206784,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206781\/revisions\/206784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}