{"id":1381,"date":"2013-06-13T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/13\/a-new-vision-for-upcountry-history-museum\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:51:20","slug":"a-new-vision-for-upcountry-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-new-vision-for-upcountry-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"A new vision for Upcountry History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7049\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dana-thorpe-news-6-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7049 lazyload\" title=\"dana-thorpe-news-6-13\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dana-thorpe-news-6-13.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"313\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/313;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Thorpe came to the Upcountry History Museum in April. \/ Donna Isbell Walker\/Staff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dana Thorpe became the new executive director of the Upcountry History Museum-Furman in April. Her vision for the museum includes exploring new subjects, making connections between local history and the broader scope of American history, and reaching out to partner with other organizations. She also said the museum\u2019s relatively new partnership with Furman offers lots of potential. <em>The Greenville News<\/em> reported on Thorpe\u2019s vision for the future of the museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/viewart\/20130612\/CITYPEOPLE\/306120037\/Dana-Thorpe-looks-expand-offerings-Upcountry-History-Museum\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Thorpe became the new executive director of the Upcountry History Museum-Furman in April. Her vision for the museum includes exploring new subjects, making connections between local history and the broader scope of American history, and reaching out to partner with other organizations. She also said the museum\u2019s relatively new partnership with Furman offers lots of potential.\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em> reported on Thorpe\u2019s vision for the future of the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}