{"id":16702,"date":"2015-07-28T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16702"},"modified":"2015-07-28T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:02:49","slug":"grant-comes-to-avon-grove-library-aug-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16702","title":{"rendered":"Grant comes to Avon grove Library, Aug. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST GROVE \u2014 What was life like during the Civil War? How did Hiram Grant become Ulysses S. Grant, and why was his name change so important? Adults and children alike will enjoy learning the answers on Tuesday, August 4 when Grant visits West Grove in the person of Kenneth Serfass, historian and retired Marine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1151668\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grant-pose-300x297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1151668\" class=\"wp-image-1151668 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grant-pose-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Grant-pose\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1151668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Serfass as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for anyone who loves history,\u201d said Lori Schwabenbauer, director of Avon Grove Library. \u201cI\u2019m excited to bring here. General Grant has been Ken\u2019s hero since boyhood, so this will be a well-informed and lively presentation. As a public library, Avon Grove is committed to providing appealing and informative events like these to enhance the lives of our customers.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ken has been appearing as General Grant since 2009, performing in the History Channel\u2019s 2010 production \u201cLee &amp; Grant,\u201d and in 2013 for the HBO series \u201cFamily Tree.\u201d Last April, he portrayed Grant for the National Park Service at their Arlington commemoration of the 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Lee\u2019s surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Avon Grove Library is located at 117 Rosehill Avenue in the West Grove Borough Building (610-869-2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avongrovelibrary.org\">www.avongrovelibrary.org<\/a>). The program will be held in the Public Meeting Room at 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Avon Grove Library is a vital educational institution, providing equal opportunity for self-directed learning, research assistance and instruction, and enriching experiences for over 30,000 students of all ages in southern Chester County. The library\u00a0is a member of the Chester County Library System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST GROVE \u2014 What was life like during the Civil War? How did Hiram Grant become Ulysses S. Grant, and why was his name change so important? Adults and children alike will enjoy learning the answers on Tuesday, August 4 when Grant visits West Grove in the person of Kenneth Serfass, historian and retired Marine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[2735,826,6450],"class_list":["post-16702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","tag-avon-grove-library","tag-history","tag-u-s-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}