{"id":340,"date":"2005-11-29T07:20:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:21:12","slug":"genealogist-tries-to-solve-eagle-head-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/11\/29\/genealogist-tries-to-solve-eagle-head-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogist tries to solve Eagle head mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a rather unique article in the Morning Sentinel (MaineToday.com),  <a href=\"http:\/\/morningsentinel.mainetoday.com\/news\/local\/2188047.shtml\">Genealogist tries to solve Eagle head mystery<\/a>, by Colin Hickey, about the head of the Maine Genealogical Society&#8217;s Taconnett Falls Chapter helping a man track down an artist from over a century ago.  The hope is to build a biography of the artist, as well as the intended home of a carved eagle&#8217;s head (which originally kicked off the mystery).<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WINSLOW &#8212; Call it the mystery of the Eagle head.<\/p>\n<p>Thelma Brooks, who heads the Taconnett Falls Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society, said the mystery started with a phone query from a Florida man.<\/p>\n<p>James H. Heyer of Clearwater, Fla. had purchased a wooden Eagle head, apparently carved by Fred Eaton Southard, who was born in Winslow in 1861, according to Heyer&#8217;s research&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Now Heyer wants to find the Winslow home that Southard did the commission work for more than a century ago. He also wants to get any information about Southard&#8217;s life as an artisan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a rather unique article in the Morning Sentinel (MaineToday.com),  <a href=\"http:\/\/morningsentinel.mainetoday.com\/news\/local\/2188047.shtml\">Genealogist tries to solve Eagle head mystery<\/a>, by Colin Hickey, about the head of the Maine Genealogical Society&#8217;s Taconnett Falls Chapter helping a man track down an artist from over a century ago.  The hope is to build a biography of the artist, as well as the intended home of a carved eagle&#8217;s head (which originally kicked off the mystery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}