{"id":1064,"date":"2012-08-17T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-08-17T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:07:07","slug":"new-exhibit-old-home-day-and-new-old-home-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2012\/08\/17\/new-exhibit-old-home-day-and-new-old-home-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit: Old Home Day (and New Old Home Day!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1066\" title=\"eve-02-0008-toabe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard from The Kid, postmarked 1908\" width=\"520\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eve-02-0008-toabe-1024x656.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcard from The Kid, postmarked 1908<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Old Home Day is a small town New England tradition popular from the 1860s into the 1930s, and later in many cases. \u00a0In Kingston, the town-wide event, which included clambakes, sports, dancing, singing and parades, was held annually from 1903 to 1908, again from 1933 to 1938, in the 1970s and the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s exhibit features <a title=\"More on Old Home\u00a0Week\" href=\"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/04\/more-on-old-home-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">programs<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"August 28, 1908 and\u00a02008\" href=\"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/25\/august-28-1908-and-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos<\/a> from some of these events.<\/p>\n<p>And the tradition continues on September 8, \u00a0Kingston&#8217;s new Old Home Day! \u00a0To get involved, contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstonmass.org\/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&amp;SEC={500AACCC-50A4-431A-9681-E680FCCDA845}\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Selectmen<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Home Day is a small town New England tradition popular from the 1860s into the 1930s, and later in many cases. \u00a0In Kingston, the town-wide event, which included clambakes, sports, dancing, singing and parades, was held annually from 1903 to 1908, again from 1933 to 1938, in the 1970s and the 1990s. This month&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2012\/08\/17\/new-exhibit-old-home-day-and-new-old-home-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Exhibit: Old Home Day (and New Old Home Day!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,12,15],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-events","category-exhibit","category-kingston-bay","category-people","tag-old-home-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}