{"id":23916,"date":"2018-09-17T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=23916"},"modified":"2018-09-17T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:12:50","slug":"point-lookout-state-park-hosts-artillery-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/09\/17\/point-lookout-state-park-hosts-artillery-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Lookout State Park Hosts Artillery Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Living History Happens Sept. 29-30<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Artillerydemo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23954\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Artillerydemo-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of artillery demonstration\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>The Friends of Point Lookout are hosting a U.S. Civil War weekend Sept. 29-30 at <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/southern\/pointlookout.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Point Lookout State Park<\/a> in St. Mary\u2019s County. Programs run from\u00a010 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The program features artillery demonstrations and other programming. Tours of Fort #3 and the prison pen site will also be offered along with living history programs involving the military garrison of the fort along with civilian exhibits and impressions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Point Lookout is a peninsula where the Potomac River meets Chesapeake Bay, and the viewpoint from this strategic location made it a pivotal place during the Civil War. In the early 1860s, the site housed a military fort, Hammond General Hospital and Camp Hoffman where prisoners of war were held.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available by calling 301-872-5688\u200b\u200b, or emailing <a href=\"mailto:crickenberger@comcast.net?subject=Artillery%20Weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Crickenberger<\/a> with the Friends of Point Lookout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living History Happens Sept. 29-30 The Friends of Point Lookout are hosting a U.S. Civil War weekend Sept. 29-30 at Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary\u2019s County. Programs run from\u00a010 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. The program features artillery demonstrations and other programming. Tours of Fort #3<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/09\/17\/point-lookout-state-park-hosts-artillery-weekend\/\">&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":[4303,2982,3648,3959,3410,2926,2942],"class_list":["post-23916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-bob-crickenberger","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-civil-war","tag-friends-of-point-lookout","tag-point-lookout-state-park","tag-potomac-river","tag-st-marys-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916","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=23916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23964,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23916\/revisions\/23964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}