tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1073123228290164262..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: EXTRA: Celebrating “Grand Union Flag” Day in SomervilleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-17778323411492700312017-06-16T17:22:14.325-05:002017-06-16T17:22:14.325-05:00That image also shows Washington’s Cambridge headq...That image also shows Washington’s Cambridge headquarters painted yellow with a porch on its left side. When the general was there the house was probably gray, and Andrew Craigie added the porches in a 1790s remodel. <br /><br />I thought the image was so obviously a latter-day depiction that it fit the topic of the “Grand Union Flag”—a term that itself dates to a century after the event in question. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-51847595987387666282017-06-16T14:10:40.805-05:002017-06-16T14:10:40.805-05:00John,
I'm curious about the artwork that you ...John,<br /><br />I'm curious about the artwork that you selected to accompany this post. It's clearly of more recent origin, I'm guessing maybe 1950s. But instead of Prospect Hill, it depicts the flag being raised at a formal ceremony in front of the General's headquarters in Cambridge. (Somehow it reminds me of the Dorothy Dudley myth of a ceremony under the Washington Elm in July 1775.)<br /><br />I see an artist's initials "D.H." and a copyright by the A.T.C.B.S.A. A quick Google search leads me to an article on "Flags of the Free" in Boys' Life, June 1969, with this and other images by Don Hewitt. The copyright line appears to be Allegheny Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America.<br /><br />Any other thoughts about its origin?<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Charlie<br /><br />Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com