{"id":133495,"date":"2010-01-03T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T04:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2010-01-03T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T04:28:26","slug":"wayne-county-pennsylvania-historical-society-museum-closes-until-april-15-due-to-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/133495","title":{"rendered":"Wayne County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society Museum Closes Until April 15 Due to Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynehistorypa.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wayne-county-historical-soc.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne County Historical Society\" title=\"Wayne County Historical Society\" width=\"250\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7710\" \/><\/a>  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honesdale,_Pennsylvania\">HONESDALE<\/a> [PENNSYLVANIA]<\/strong> &#8211; A museum dedicated to preserving Wayne County&#8217;s history and Honesdale&#8217;s role as the birthplace of the American railroad will be shuttered over the winter due to a loss in critical state funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The easiest way to make up for that was just to close,&#8221; said Ann O&#8217;Hara, a spokeswoman for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynehistorypa.org\/\"> Wayne County Historical Society<\/a>, which manages the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynehistorypa.org\/museums.php\">downtown museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s painful. We don&#8217;t like doing it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The museum, which houses a replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on commercial rails in the United States, will be closed today. It is expected to reopen April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread state budget cuts this year affected non-profits throughout the state, with county historical societies taking big hits since their operations generally run on tight budgets supported through community fundraisers and memberships.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynehistorypa.org\/\">Wayne County Historical Society<\/a> lost its generally reliable $10,000 state grant, a significant portion of its $90,000 annual operating budget, Ms. O&#8217;Hara said.<\/p>\n<p>The museum&#8217;s executive director, Sally Talaga, will be laid off until the museum reopens. A part-time employee will now volunteer her services; and one other part-time employee will have her hours scaled back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/news\/funding-cuts-shutter-wayne-museum-1.519380\">Read the full article<\/a> in the January 1, 2010 edition of <em>The Times Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONESDALE [PENNSYLVANIA] &#8211; A museum dedicated to preserving Wayne County&#8217;s history and Honesdale&#8217;s role as the birthplace of the American railroad will be shuttered over the winter due to a loss in critical state funding. &#8220;The easiest way to make up for that was just to close,&#8221; said Ann O&#8217;Hara, a spokeswoman for the Wayne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}