{"id":210903,"date":"2026-10-05T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210903"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:30:11","slug":"busy-weekend-for-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/05\/busy-weekend-for-historical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy weekend for Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Historical Society\u2019s annual BBQ chicken dinner fundraiser will be this Saturday, October 10.&nbsp;Dinner pickup will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m.&nbsp;To pick dinners on Third St. between Market St. and Washington St., tnter Third St. from Market St.&nbsp; Historical Society volunteers will deliver your meals to your car. This is a ticketed event, meaning no extra dinners will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, October 11, the Van Wert County Historical Society will celebrate its annual\u00a0Membership and Perspective\u00a0Members Day.\u00a0The day will start off with a program on World War I soldiers\u00a0by Jim Waechter from the Indiana Museum of the Soldier at 2 p.m. in the Annex.\u00a0Following the program, the Van Wart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will rededicate a sign acknowledging Isaac Van Wart as the city and county namesake.\u00a0Throughout the day cake and cupcakes will be served to celebrate Isaac Van Wart&#8217;s 264th Birthday on October 25.\u00a0The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Van Wert County Historical Society\u2019s annual BBQ chicken dinner fundraiser will be this Saturday, October 10.&nbsp;Dinner pickup will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m.&nbsp;To pick dinners on Third St. between Market St. and Washington St., tnter Third St. from Market St.&nbsp; Historical Society volunteers will deliver your meals to your car. This [&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-210903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-12 22:52:58","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\/210903","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=210903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210905,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210903\/revisions\/210905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}