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

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

Happy Monday! This past Friday, the youth and the Young People of Color Group in Yellow Springs gathered at Gaunt Park to dance, swim and eat in fellowship. This was a part of the YPOC Group's annual pool party that is an open event within the Yellow Springs community but this celebration has a unique significance in that it takes place at Gaunt Park. Gaunt Park was originally part of the numerous properties within the area that was owned by Wheeling Gaunt, himself. Upon Gaun