{"id":40802267720,"date":"2022-09-13T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802267720"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:53:53","slug":"i-looked-up-and-there-was-sky-the-2021-mullica-hill-tornado-sept-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/i-looked-up-and-there-was-sky-the-2021-mullica-hill-tornado-sept-25\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Looked Up and There was Sky: The 2021 Mullica Hill Tornado\u201d Sept. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/tornado-g5ed77b653_1280-768x590-1-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado\" class=\"wp-image-40802267729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/tornado-g5ed77b653_1280-768x590-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/tornado-g5ed77b653_1280-768x590-1-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/tornado-g5ed77b653_1280-768x590-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Ziobro, specialist professor of public history, will present \u201cI Looked Up and There was Sky: The 2021 Mullica Hill Tornado\u201d at an event hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisonhistorical.com\/\">Harrison Township Historical Society<\/a> at the Richwood Academy Cultural Center on Sept. 25 at 3 p.m. Free tickets are available to attend in person at the Society\u2019s Facebook page, where the presentation will also be livestreamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ziobro\u2019s work is the result of an oral history project sponsored by the Harrison Township Historical Society to record the experiences of affected residents, first&nbsp;responders, local officials and volunteers. With support from the Gloucester County Cultural&nbsp;and Heritage Commission at Rowan College of South Jersey in partnership with the New Jersey&nbsp;Historical Commission\/Department of State engaged the services of Melissa Ziobro, specialist&nbsp;professor of public history at Monmouth University, to design and conduct the interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, a new companion exhibition, \u201cTornado,\u201d opens at Old Town Hall&nbsp;Museum. The installation features selections from the interviews, as well as photography,&nbsp;video and artifacts to tell the story of the storm and its aftermath and will continue on view&nbsp;Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. through Dec. 4. Admission is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Town Hall Museum is located in the heart of Mullica Hill\u2019s Historic District at 62 South Main&nbsp;St. For museum and program information, visit HarrisonHistorical.com and the society\u2019s&nbsp;Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Ziobro, specialist professor of public history, will present \u201cI Looked Up and There was Sky: The 2021 Mullica Hill Tornado\u201d at an event hosted by the Harrison Township Historical Society at the Richwood Academy Cultural Center on Sept. 25 at 3 p.m. Free tickets are available to attend in person at the Society\u2019s Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":40802265346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"person":[567],"audience":[],"school":[95,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802267720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-perspectives","person-mziobro","school-history-anthropology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802265346,"rendered":"<img width=\"804\" height=\"789\" style=\"object-position: 49.9% 45.525%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Specialist Prof. Ziobro\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro-360x353.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/>","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Melissa-Ziobro.jpg","width":804,"height":789}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802267720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802267765,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267720\/revisions\/40802267765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802265346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802267720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802267720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802267720"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802267720"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802267720"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802267720"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802267720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}