Chesapeake Bay meeting March 2010

This Confederate flag (Original Design 1861-1983) was taken from a the uniform of a Confederate solider. The uniform was made before the shelling of Ft. Sumter and when there were only 7 states in the Confederacy.

Ideas for the 2011 International Congress of Vexillology were discussed, in case you didn't know the first week of August in 2011 will be when Vexillologists around the world gather in Washington D.C. to discuss flags.

Many of the details are still in the works. If we get lucky perhaps a helpful person in US Congress can get us a room in one of the official rooms for rent?

After lunch we visited the 'Library' and were amazed to see such of focused concentration of flags and flag books. We were privy to see a flag book that was written in 1788, the year America was officially created under the constitution.

'Yes!,' Tom Carrier explains to the delightful confusion of customers who enter his store 'yes indeed this is the flag of the wonderful city of Cuzco, Peru!'

I thought this was strange: A post card showing Lincoln as a comet from the heavens, apparently made before the end of the Civil War.