{"id":20615,"date":"2018-03-21T16:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=20615"},"modified":"2018-03-21T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:42:30","slug":"volunteers-to-help-maintain-and-preserve-point-lookout-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/03\/21\/volunteers-to-help-maintain-and-preserve-point-lookout-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers to Help Maintain and Preserve Point Lookout State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Annual Park Day Event Held April 7<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2907\/33017592934_377e04b753.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of volunteers working on historic building at Point Lookout State Park\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park Day Volunteers at Point Lookout State Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marylanders can help preserve and maintain historic Civil War sites during the Civil War Trust&#8217;s annual Park Day event April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are needed\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/southern\/pointlookout.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Point Lookout State Park<\/a>\u00a0in St. Mary&#8217;s County to work on the Historic Civil War Fort #3 and Prison Pen area from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Needs include general maintenance of the fort and surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Every year, community leaders, history buffs and preservationists join forces to help enhance and restore numerous locations during this nationwide event.<\/p>\n<p>Additional locations in Maryland include Antietam National Battlefield,\u00a0Fort Washington Park and Monocacy National Battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u00a0information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilwar.org\/events\/park-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park Day<\/a> at Point Lookout State Park, please contact Bob Crickenberger of the Friends of Point Lookout at 301-876-5688 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:crickenberger@comcast.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crickenberger@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Park Day Event Held April 7 Marylanders can help preserve and maintain historic Civil War sites during the Civil War Trust&#8217;s annual Park Day event April 7. Volunteers are needed\u00a0at Point Lookout State Park\u00a0in St. Mary&#8217;s County to work on the Historic Civil War Fort #3 and Prison Pen area from 9 a.m. to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/03\/21\/volunteers-to-help-maintain-and-preserve-point-lookout-state-park\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[4304,4303,3648,4302,4305,3959,4306,3410,2942],"class_list":["post-20615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-antietam-national-battlefield","tag-bob-crickenberger","tag-civil-war","tag-civil-war-trust","tag-fort-washington-park","tag-friends-of-point-lookout","tag-monocacy-national-battlefield","tag-point-lookout-state-park","tag-st-marys-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20666,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions\/20666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}