{"id":1177,"date":"2013-05-20T23:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2013-05-20T23:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:46:39","slug":"the-eagle-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2013\/05\/20\/the-eagle-has-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"The eagle has landed."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1180\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1180 \" alt=\"G. Palmer Holmes and the World War II Honor Roll outside Town Hall, circa1946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr.jpg?w=520\" width=\"364\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/peo-13-0003-lhr-684x1024.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G. Palmer Holmes and the World War II Honor Roll outside Town Hall, circa1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Around 1946, the Town&#8217;s Honor Roll, which listed those Kingston residents who served in World War II, got an eagle. It was carved by Captain Fred Bailey, who fashioned at least two.<\/p>\n<p>When the Honor Roll was taken down &#8212; it was replaced by the monument where Main Street crosses Route 3 &#8212; Holmes asked for the eagle. \u00a0It stayed in his family until very recently, when it landed here in the Library, to be cared for by the Local History Room.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1181\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1181\" title=\"Eagle, 2013\" alt=\"thg-13-0001-lhr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr.jpg?w=520\" width=\"364\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thg-13-0001-lhr-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eagle, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingstonpubliclibrary.org\">Kingston Public Library<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/kpl_local_history.htm\">Local History Room<\/a>, and the full blog <a href=\"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\">piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1946, the Town&#8217;s Honor Roll, which listed those Kingston residents who served in World War II, got an eagle. It was carved by Captain Fred Bailey, who fashioned at least two. When the Honor Roll was taken down &#8212; it was replaced by the monument where Main Street crosses Route 3 &#8212; Holmes asked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2013\/05\/20\/the-eagle-has-landed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The eagle has landed.&#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":[18],"tags":[88,129,258],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-of-kingston","tag-eagles","tag-honor-roll","tag-town-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","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=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}