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Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner
By Hartland, Jessie
- ISBN
- 9781534402331 9781534402348
- Publisher
- Wiseman/Simon
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2019
Today the original star-spangled banner is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. But its story began in Baltimore during the War of 1812, when Major George Armistead, stationed at Fort McHenry, commissioned local business owner Mary Pickersgill and her team of seamstresses ("her mother, daughter, two nieces, and an indentured servant," with more info provided in the appended author's note) to create a huge, thirty by forty-two foot flag. "It is my desire to have a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2019
Today the original star-spangled banner is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. But its story began in Baltimore during the War of 1812, when Major George Armistead, stationed at Fort McHenry, commissioned local business owner Mary Pickersgill and her team of seamstresses ("her mother, daughter, two nieces, and an indentured servant," with more info provided in the appended author's note) to create a huge, thirty by forty-two foot flag. "It is my desire to have a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
