{"id":233718,"date":"2026-07-02T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:32:19","slug":"sons-of-the-revolution-keep-250-years-of-history-alive-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233718\/","title":{"rendered":"Sons of the Revolution keep 250 years of history alive in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Since 1888, descendants of revolutionary patriots have convened in Pennsylvania to share stories, host events, and promote education of the nation&#8217;s founding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They are known as the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Current president, Michael Whelan, has been a member since the age of 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Whelan joined fellow member, Peter Stokes, at Valley Forge National Historical Park to share stories and walk the same grounds as their ancestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stokes claims several historical figures as distant relatives. Among them is Peter Muhlenberg, who served as general with George Washington at Valley Forge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stokes, who posits he may in fact be named after Muhlenberg, enjoys partaking in historical re-enactments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">To learn more about upcoming events with the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution and how to get involved, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/amrev.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website.<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Since 1888, descendants of revolutionary patriots have convened in Pennsylvania to share stories,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4000,94,28,30,29,100931,14415],"class_list":["post-233718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-america-250","tag-history","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-society-of-sons-of-the-revolution","tag-valley-forge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}