{"id":11,"date":"2020-03-18T23:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-04-23T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:55:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;To Health, History, Horses Add: Culture and Education.&#8221; In 1963, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Skidmore College were both planning campuses nestled in the woods. SPAC opened in 1966; Skidmore&#8217;s new campus was in use by 1968.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" width=\"264\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1963-ToHealthHistHorses-AddCulture-Education-scaled-e1587668655633.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><figcaption> Courtesy of Fulton History.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty years later, both institutions continue to promote arts and education, separately and together.  In 2020, students in Skidmore College&#8217;s History Department were invited to organize SPAC&#8217;s archive and unearthed stories linking its past to its present and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is their story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#969494;font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-right has-sitebg-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/about\/the-spac-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The SPAC Archive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#969494;font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-right has-sitebg-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/about\/creating-the-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/about\/making-an-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reating an Archive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To Health, History, Horses Add: Culture and Education.&#8221; In 1963, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Skidmore College were both planning campuses nestled in the woods. SPAC opened in 1966; Skidmore&#8217;s new campus was in use by 1968. Fifty years later, both institutions continue to promote arts and education, separately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/SPAC_stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}