{"id":262,"date":"2010-11-08T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:32:05","slug":"my-country-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"My Country Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The My Country Society, Inc. was founded in 1967 with the purpose of publishing a journal, <em>My Country<\/em>, related to American history which many of you likely remember. Initially, the journal was distributed throughout Litchfield County to schools, historical societies, libraries, town halls, banks, and other places. Later, it became available by subscription. The publication schedule varied, but typically several issues were produced each year. New and established authors were encouraged to submit manuscripts. The Society also awarded\u00a0 scholarships to Litchfield High School students. In 2008, the Society ceased its operation and merged its assets with the Litchfield Historical Society. The Society agreed to publish articles of historical interest in the spirit of <em>My Country<\/em> on its Web site.\u00a0 Since that time, staff have brainstormed several ideas for items of interest to include.\u00a0 We expect to launch the site with a few such articles in the next month or two.\u00a0 If you have suggestions for articles please let us know!\u00a0 We will be sure to post the direct URL here when the page is up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Records of the My Country Society have been processed with the support of an NHPRC processing grant.\u00a0 You can see the record of our holdings in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=30\">Archon<\/a> or stop by during library hours to peruse back issues of <em>My Country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The My Country Society, Inc. was founded in 1967 with the purpose of publishing a journal, My Country, related to American history which many of you likely remember. Initially, the journal was distributed throughout Litchfield County to schools, historical societies, libraries, town halls, banks, and other places. Later, it became available by subscription. The publication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}