{"id":45935,"date":"2017-05-31T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=45935"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:52:08","slug":"wyso-reports-on-wright-state-student-breathing-new-life-into-historic-mixed-race-settlement-of-longtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/31\/wyso-reports-on-wright-state-student-breathing-new-life-into-historic-mixed-race-settlement-of-longtown\/","title":{"rendered":"WYSO reports on Wright State student breathing new life into historic &#8216;mixed-race&#8217; settlement of Longtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38861\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/11\/03\/vanishing-act\/connor-keiser-16548_090\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38861\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38861\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/11\/connor-keiser-16548_090-260x177.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Keiser at a cemetery in Longtown\" width=\"260\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connor Keiser at a cemetery in Longtown.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In southwest Ohio, about a mile from the Indiana state line, a long-forgotten town with a special place in African American history is struggling to be reborn. Longtown was established nearly 200 years ago in what is now Greenville. The settlement grew into a thriving mixed-race community and a major stop on the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Now, descendants of those pioneering settlers are working to bring Longtown back to life for others to experience.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the report from <a href=\"http:\/\/wyso.org\/post\/longtown-descendants-breathe-new-life-historic-mixed-race-settlement\">WYSO Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In southwest Ohio, about a mile from the Indiana state line, a long-forgotten town with a special place in African American history is struggling to be reborn. Longtown was established nearly 200 years ago in what is now Greenville. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/31\/wyso-reports-on-wright-state-student-breathing-new-life-into-historic-mixed-race-settlement-of-longtown\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45936,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45935\/revisions\/45936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}