Articles About Wheeling Gaunt

• The giving Gaunt

  By Reilly DixonDecember 7, 2023

  

  Earlier this week, Village crews did a little sharing of their own and carried out the tradition of delivering flour and sugar to Yellow Springs widows and widowers.

• Annual flour, sugar delivery announced

  By YS News StaffNovember 10, 2023

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs Public Works Department crew will begin its annual delivery of flour and sugar to local widows and widowers on Monday, Nov. 20, and should complete deliveries by Wednesday, Nov. 22.

• Wheeling Gaunt Day set for Oct. 7

  By YS News StaffOctober 2, 2023

  

  Wheeling Gaunt Day 2023 will be celebrated Saturday, Oct. 7, beginning at 10 a.m., at the Wheeling Gaunt sculpture plaza, adjacent to the train station at the intersections of Dayton Street and Xenia Avenue.

• Wheeling Gaunt receives honorary degree from Wilberforce University

  By Cheryl DurgansMay 16, 2023

  

  Yellow Springs philanthropist and businessman Wheeling Gaunt was awarded an honorary degree posthumously by Wilberforce University at the college’s commencement on Saturday, May 6.

• Flour power

  By Reilly DixonNovember 26, 2021

  

  On Tuesday, Nov. 23, Village of Yellow Springs foreman Tanner Bussey dropped off a bag of flour and sugar to Susan Gartner as part of the Village’s annual distribution of the baking staples to local widows and widowers.

• Wheeling Gaunt sculpture unveiled in downtown Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonOctober 12, 2021

  

  Standing over six-feet tall and glinting with a deep bronze exterior, a lifesize statue of 19th-century Yellow Springs resident, philanthropist and formerly enslaved man Wheeling Gaunt, was unveiled on Saturday, Oct. 2, to joyous celebration and fanfare.

• Site design unveiled— Gaunt sculpture park eyed

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2021

  

  After three years, the Wheeling Gaunt sculpture is nearing completion. Anticipating a September unveiling, Village Council heard about plans for the sculpture’s placement in a downtown park at its June 21 regular meeting.

• Annual Gaunt event honors foundation, author

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 26, 2021

  

  The third annual Wheeling Gaunt Community Service Award presentation event, sponsored by the Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project Committee and the YS Arts Council, was held virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 23.

• The Briar Patch— Mortgaging humanity: Property values and the life of Wheeling Gaunt

  By Cheryl DurgansJanuary 4, 2021

  

  There is clear distinction between Gaunt’s humanitarian-based business structure, and the economic system of slavery upon which our mortgage system is based. Bundling enslaved people — captives — into securities had benefits for the slave owner.

• Wheeling Gaunt’s legacy lives on

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 1, 2021

  

  Wheeling Gaunt’s generosity perseveres in a 126-year-old tradition of the delivery of flour to local widows and widowers at the holidays — a stipulation in Gaunt’s will when he bequeathed the land that is now Gaunt Park to the Village.