{"id":8154,"date":"2023-05-15T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/?post_type=project&#038;p=8154"},"modified":"2023-05-15T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:44:15","slug":"melissa-m-cybulski","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/project\/melissa-m-cybulski\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa M. Cybulski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/head-cybulski.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8203\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Melissa M. Cybulski is vice-president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longmeadowhistoricalsociety.org\/our-history\">Longmeadow Historical Society<\/a>, where she uses their extensive archives to find inspiration for the group&#8217;s weekly History Notes series. She works to bring forward the hidden voices of Longmeadow\u2019s past, including a multi-year project uncovering the names and stories of people enslaved in the community. Recently, she completed a manuscript of a book for young readers, &#8220;Appleseeds: A Boy Named Johnny Chapman,&#8221; that imagines what life was like in Longmeadow in 1783 as the boy who would grow up to be the legend, Johnny Appleseed. Melissa also works as a guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA, sharing the true story of the poet\u2019s life lived in full color.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa M. Cybulski is vice-president of the Longmeadow Historical Society, where she uses their extensive archives to find inspiration for the group&#8217;s weekly History Notes series. She works to bring forward the hidden voices of Longmeadow\u2019s past, including a multi-year project uncovering the names and stories of people enslaved in the community. Recently, she completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[4],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8154","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-presenters"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8154\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masshistoryalliance.org\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}