THE 365 PROJECT

Wheeling Gaunt's legacy lives on in Yellow Springs as the village continues his willed desire to have flour given to the poor, worthy widows of Yellow Springs regardless of their race. Below are several pictures taken from articles written about the Christmas gift tradition that the village maintains. Originally, the widows were to be given 25 pounds of flour but the village later changed it to 10 pounds of flour and 10 pounds of sugar to be given out every year. As we can se

Happy #WheelingGauntWednesday! Today's blog post features the winner of our 4th of July prize winner! As an interactive part of our 4th of July Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project float we handed out small sacks of flour as a nod to Gaunt's Christmas Flour tradition, one of which had a little prize inside. The prize was the opportunity to meet with the the sculpture artist who will be erecting our bronze statue of Wheeling Gaunt and pick out their favorite sketch of Wheeling Gau

Welcome to our second installment of blog posts dedicated to the life and legacy of Wheeling Gaunt!! When we left off we had learned about Gaunt's early years as a slave in Kentucky and how he eventually purchased his freedom as well as the freedom of his wife, Amanda and a family friend named Nick. The couple eventually made the move to a village in southern Ohio by the name of Yellow Springs. Once settled in the town, Gaunt went to work utilizing his notable entrepreneur sk