Yesterday we visited Ft. McHenry, the site of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore and more significantly the site that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen the Defense of Ft. McHenry, better known to most as the Star Spangled Banner. It is an impressive fort that is both a National Park and a National Historic Shrine.
It was a really nice visit to an important historic site and an excellent follow up to our visit to the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia the day before. Visiting the location where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were drafted was a great preview to our visit to the site where our national anthem was created.
The icing on the cake to our Ft. McHenry visit was that the kids got to help in the changing of the flag on the 193rd anniversary of the 1814 battle. The flag had to be changed from the storm flag (17 x 25 ft) to a smaller flag due to high winds. Drew just reminded me of this very cool fact: the large flag shown here is small compared to the fort's largest flag which is so big that the flag in our pictures would fit inside the blue field of the largest flag. Hopefully when we sail to Baltimore we'll get to see the biggest flag flying over the fort. Anyway, here are a few shots of the kids at work at Ft. McHenry. Because it was starting to rain, you might see a few raindrops in the pictures.
It was a really nice visit to an important historic site and an excellent follow up to our visit to the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia the day before. Visiting the location where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were drafted was a great preview to our visit to the site where our national anthem was created.
The icing on the cake to our Ft. McHenry visit was that the kids got to help in the changing of the flag on the 193rd anniversary of the 1814 battle. The flag had to be changed from the storm flag (17 x 25 ft) to a smaller flag due to high winds. Drew just reminded me of this very cool fact: the large flag shown here is small compared to the fort's largest flag which is so big that the flag in our pictures would fit inside the blue field of the largest flag. Hopefully when we sail to Baltimore we'll get to see the biggest flag flying over the fort. Anyway, here are a few shots of the kids at work at Ft. McHenry. Because it was starting to rain, you might see a few raindrops in the pictures.
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