Uncategorized July 4, 2025 – Independence Day 2025-07-042025-07-04 Independence Day is my favorite holiday of the year. Usually, it's a time where our nation comes together and celebrates the breakaway from a tyrannical power and the founding of…
Uncategorized June 14, 2025 -Dangers to Democracy in the United States 2025-06-142025-06-14 My flagpole and the flags I fly are not generally a political statement. I fly flags because it brings me joy to do so. Occasionally, when the events move me,…
Uncategorized July 4, 2024 – Independence Day 2024-07-042024-07-04 Happy Independence Day! This is my favorite holiday of the year! I choose to celebrate sprit of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, which was signed on this…
Uncategorized June 14, 2024 – A New Constellation 2024-06-142024-06-14 On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed a simple resolution, reading, “Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and while; that the…
Uncategorized April 15, 2024 – Patriots’ Day 2024-04-152024-04-15 Today the Bennington Flag and the Betsy Ross Flag fly in celebration of Patriots' Day, which is a holiday celebrated in Massachusetts, Maine, and four other states commemorating the first…
Uncategorized June 14, 2022 – A New Constellation 2022-06-14 On this date in 1777, the United States Congress passed a resolution setting the details of our first national flag. Over the intervening 200+ years, the design has changed, but…
Uncategorized May 24, 2022 – Walk Through the Revolution 2022-05-242022-05-24 Today the Betsy Ross and Grand Union flags are flying in honor of my daughter and her entire grade participating in “Walk Through the Revolution,” which is a program that…
Uncategorized July 4, 2021 – Independence Day 2021-07-042021-07-04 Today is the 245th anniversary of the United States becoming an independent nation. For the past two and a half centuries, the people of the United States have striven to…
Uncategorized June 14, 2021 – A New Constellation 2021-06-14 In the United States, today is flag day, the anniversary of Congress passing the first resolution designating a national flag for the United States. Last year, I wrote fairly eloquently…
Uncategorized November 29, 2020 – Adding to the New Constellation 2020-11-292020-11-29 I have a long history with flags and flag poles. As described in the first post on this blog "A New Constellation", my love of flags started with a neighbor…
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