{"id":18839,"date":"2021-10-19T02:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2021-10-19T02:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:45:01","slug":"historic-veterans-day-concert-celebration-planned-at-brick-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/10\/historic-veterans-day-concert-celebration-planned-at-brick-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Veterans Day Concert Celebration Planned at Brick Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18840\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby.jpg\" alt=\"The Libby Prison Minstrels (Supplied Photo)\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby.jpg 780w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby-400x240.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby-768x463.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Libby Prison Minstrels (Supplied Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ocean County Library\u2019s Brick Township branch will celebrate America\u2019s women and men in uniform, past and present, during its Veterans Day celebration with the Libby Prison Minstrels next month.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey group will honor veterans through songs, stories, and humor, playing music that inspired generations of Americans through many conflicts. The show will be held Nov. 6 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The band invokes the spirit of Union Army detainees in the Confederacy\u2019s Libby Prison, who famously raised their voices in patriotic song nightly to boost morale. They continued to sing after hostilities ended., and their fame helped popularize the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Today\u2019s Libby Prison Minstrels have performed at the Lincoln Memorial, Ford\u2019s Theatre, Gettysburg National Military Park, festivals, schools, and Albert Music Hall in Waretown.<\/p>\n<p>The group consists of Brian Ross, Jim Kramer, John\u00a0Suchernick, Ron\u00a0Kushnir, and Ron Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated that 35,973 veterans make their homes in Ocean County, more than in any other county in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free, however the library requires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancountylibrary.org\/events\">registration on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/10\/historic-veterans-day-concert-celebration-planned-at-brick-library\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean County Library\u2019s Brick Township branch will celebrate America\u2019s women and men in uniform, past and present, during its Veterans Day celebration with the Libby Prison Minstrels next month. The New Jersey group will honor veterans through songs, stories, and humor, playing music that inspired generations of Americans through many conflicts. The show will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[971,24,4484,4513,532,4514],"class_list":["post-18839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-library","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-libby-prison-minstrels","tag-ocean-county-library","tag-veterans-day-2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/libby.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4TR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}