{"id":9334,"date":"2020-07-19T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:58:18","slug":"historical-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/19\/historical-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical markers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have been paying attention, you know that I spent a good many hours this past winter photographing headstones in Florida.  It was a feel-good activity that combined the need for some exercise with an ability to keep myself socially distant from living people.  I have done some of the same this summer in Massachusetts, but also have found a new activity: finding and photographing historical markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ohave-Shalom-Gardner-MA-smaller-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9335\" width=\"395\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ohave-Shalom-Gardner-MA-smaller-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ohave-Shalom-Gardner-MA-smaller-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ohave-Shalom-Gardner-MA-smaller-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ohave-Shalom-Gardner-MA-smaller.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption>Ohave Shalom Synagogue marker &#8211; Gardner MA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently discovered a national database of historical markers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmdb.org\/\">hmdb.org<\/a>.  I  was thrilled to see that this site, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/\">findagrave.com<\/a>, had a list of &#8220;photo requests.&#8221;  These consisted both of requests of photos for markers that had no photos at all (like the headstone requests in findagrave) and requests for additional photos (e.g., a request for a wide-angle photograph for a marker that had only a close-up photo).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I was like a dog on a bone when I saw this.  I immediately printed a list of photo requests for markers in the county in which I am residing this summer (Worcester County MA).  The photo here is my very first photo of a marker that had none. My first contribution to the historical marker database!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been paying attention, you know that I spent a good many hours this past winter photographing headstones in Florida. It was a feel-good activity that combined the need for some exercise with an ability to keep myself socially distant from living people. I have done some of the same this summer in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/19\/historical-markers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-markers","category-places-ma","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2qy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}