{"id":283376,"date":"2026-09-11T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283376\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:10:24","slug":"worth-the-wait-the-rededication-of-the-perry-monument-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283376\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the Wait, the Rededication of the Perry Monument | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Perry Monument was dedicated to the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p>A special ceremony on Thursday, recognized the 100th anniversary of the Perry Monument at Presque Isle State Park.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials, dignitaries, and Veterans turned out for the ceremony in full force.<\/p>\n<p>Erie native (Ret.) Vice-Admiral Matt Kohler served as the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>(Ret.) Major Dr. Joe Pfadt came up with the idea for the ceremony 10 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>He joined speakers, County Executive Christina Vogel, DCNR Bureau Director John Hallas, Congressman Mike Kelly and Rear Admiral Samuel Cox.<\/p>\n<p>The Perry Monument was dedicated to the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p>The Harborcreek Vocal Ensemble performed God Bless America and Bryan Crable of PennWest Edinboro played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perry Monument was dedicated to the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-283376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283376","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=283376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}