{"id":13776,"date":"2013-02-11T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2013-02-11T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:30:04","slug":"black-patriot-focus-of-history-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13776","title":{"rendered":"Black patriot focus of history presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13778\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/single.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13778\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13778 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Noah Lewis will present a program at the Chester County Library to celebrate Black History Month.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/single-267x300.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Lewis will present a program at the Chester County Library to celebrate Black History Month.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Program on\u00a0Edward \u2018Ned\u2019 Hector to be held at Exton library<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was a black patriot who fought in the Battle of the Brandywine, and he was held in such high regard by his Conshohocken community that a street bears his name.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Black History Month, the Chester County Library will present \u201cThe Edward \u2018Ned\u2019 Hector, Black Revolutionary War Hero Program\u201d on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 1:30 p.m. Noah Lewis, an avid living history storyteller, will present the hour-long program.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Lewis earned a degree in biology, but his livelihood is presenting Living History at schools, historical sites, and historical events. A widowed father of four children, he resides in Upper Darby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Lewis started the Ned Hector presentation in 1996 at Bywood School, where he would do presentations on electricity and biology for \u00a0his daughter\u2019s fourth-grade class. When his daughter\u2019s teacher asked him if he had any presentations on Colonial America, he realized that some material he found when doing genealogical research on his family might fill the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hector was not the relative Lewis was seeking, Lewis was amazed and fascinated by him and many more little-known blacks who contributed to gaining our freedom, and he enjoys helping others appreciate the role they played. In addition, he hopes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe souls of these amazing contributors to our freedom will rest more peaceful by giving them the honor they were denied for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis\u2019 interactive and dialogue-driven historical dramatization will take place in the Struble Room of the Chester County Library,\u00a0450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program on\u00a0Edward \u2018Ned\u2019 Hector to be held at Exton library He was a black patriot who fought in the Battle of the Brandywine, and he was held in such high regard by his Conshohocken community that a street bears his name. In honor of Black History Month, the Chester County Library will present \u201cThe Edward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[924,7],"tags":[1336,2671,1878,2686,2684,2685],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","tag-battle-of-the-brandywine","tag-black-history-month","tag-chester-county-library","tag-edward-ned-hector","tag-ned-hector","tag-noah-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}