{"id":5290,"date":"2020-05-01T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:34:24","slug":"apple-blossom-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"Apple Blossom Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr alignright wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iWnBfe\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr alignright wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iWnBhP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49842064451_a7173ec137_z.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Blossom, 1959\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr alignright wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2iWp9XB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49842366097_973c97fcfa_z.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Blossom, 1959\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Images of the 1959 Apple Blossom provided by Larry Webb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To tide you through a weekend without a celebration, we have uncovered and OCR corrected a number of historic articles on past Apple Blossom celebrations on the <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/\">Virginia Chronicle <\/a>website. Don&#8217;t forget you can watch last year&#8217;s Grand Feature parade on <a href=\"https:\/\/thebloom.com\/\">thebloom.com<\/a> from 1-3 PM on Saturday to recreate some of the spring festivities in your home. Stay safe and enjoy a healthy Bloom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rappahannock Record, March 29, 1928: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=RR19280329.1.7&amp;srpos=1&amp;e=------192-en-20-RR-1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">Apple Blossom Festival<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Recorder, March 25, 1932: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=HR19320325.2.6&amp;srpos=4&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">Apple Blossom Queen of Family of Washington<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Recorder, May 13, 1932: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=HR19320513.2.10&amp;srpos=3&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">The Apple Blossom Festival in Retrospect<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Recorder, April 16, 1937: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=HR19370416.2.2&amp;srpos=15&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">Apple Blossom Festival<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Recorder, April 12, 1946: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=HR19460412.2.6&amp;srpos=5&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">19th Apple Blossom Queen<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highland Recorder, April 18, 1947: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=HR19470418.2.6&amp;srpos=2&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">Apple Blossom Queen<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southside Sentinel, February 19, 1970: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/virginiachronicle.com\/?a=d&amp;d=SSE19700219.1.5&amp;srpos=20&amp;e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-apple+blossom-------\">Winchester to Present 43rd Festival<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To tide you through a weekend without a celebration, we have uncovered and OCR corrected a number of historic articles on past Apple Blossom celebrations on the Virginia Chronicle website. Don&#8217;t forget you can watch last year&#8217;s Grand Feature parade on thebloom.com from 1-3 PM on Saturday to recreate some of the spring festivities in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=5290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Blossom Articles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,71],"tags":[66,72],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friday-photos","category-research","tag-friday-photos","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}