{"id":6,"date":"2018-03-11T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:23:43","slug":"join-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dar.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3540 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/400-DAR-members-at-DC-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/400-DAR-members-at-DC-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/400-DAR-members-at-DC.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Do you have an American Revolutionary War Patriot in your family tree? Membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution honors and preserves the legacy of your Patriot ancestor. Over two hundred years ago American Patriots fought and sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/national-society\/become-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>As a member of the DAR<\/strong><\/a>, through participation in our various programs and activities, you can continue this legacy by actively supporting historic preservation, promotion of education, and patriotic endeavors. The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>(NSDAR or DAR)<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is a volunteer women\u2019s service organization, and any woman is eligible for membership who is no less than 18 years of age and can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dar.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3539 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR-285x214.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAR.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Founded in 1890, there are approximately 185,000 members in over 3,000 chapters located across the United States and around the world. DAR members and Chapters support historic restorations and act to preserve historic revolutionary landmarks. The DAR provides scholarships to outstanding students and supports citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The first step to membership in DAR is to gather the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/national-society\/genealogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>genealogical information<\/strong><\/a> that you already have and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/contact-us\/\"><strong>contact<\/strong><\/a> our chapter. We will guide you through the application process and answer any questions you may have. You do not need to have completed your genealogical research in order to start the application process toward becoming a Daughter. You will be welcome to attend our chapter meetings, which are the second Friday of the month, September through May.\u00a0 Come join the fun, and see how rewarding DAR can be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an American Revolutionary War Patriot in your family tree? Membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution honors and preserves the legacy of your Patriot ancestor. Over two hundred years ago American Patriots fought and sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy today. As a member of the DAR, through participation in our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/join-us\/\" class=\"\"><span>Read More<\/span><i>&#43;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainedar.org\/mountdesertisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}