Lancaster County Flag, Pennsylvania

 Lancaster County flag feathers a Conestoga Wagon on a seal within an outline of a red heart.  Over the wagon are two long guns and the outer wing ring it is written: 

                                       • County of Lancaster ~ Pennsylvania • Founded May 10, 1729

It looks like there is some corn cobs laying infront of the wagon. 

Lancaster was the 4th county carved in William Penn's Colony of Pennsylvania.  Besides the Connestoga Wagon, Lancaster is famous for Shoefly Pie, and abundant Amish community.

 Note that Lancaster City has its own flag, nonetheless Lancaster City can fly the Lancaster Conestoga County flag, Pennsylvania flag and the national stars and stripes flag.

The Goodwin-Baylor Line Flag: a flag in Membrance of the Sacrifice in New Mexico Territory

 

The Goodwin-Baylor Line flag is based upon a fusion of the old Maine flag with the Kentucky Orphan's Brigade.  Since the first Territorial Governor is debatable. 

On August 1, 1861 John Robert Baylor became the first Territorial Governor of Arizona as recognized by the Confederacy.  And carved out a south bound Arizona out of New Mexico Territory such that Arizona would have hogged the border with Mexico, spanning the distance from Southern California to West Texas.  

However in 1863 the Union government divided New Mexico Territory along the 107th  meridian.  In the northern, and subsequently official case, John Noble Goodwin became the 1st official governor of Arizona Territory on December 29, 1863.

Since Goodwin was born in Maine, we have to old Maine flag that had a pine tree.  Since Baylor was from Kentucky and fought for the Confederacy a few design ques were taken from the Orphan's Brigade of Kentucky.  

As one reckons with a proper orientation of map to flag, the blue quadrants are where the Union and Confederacy agreed that this area would become Arizona and New Mexico, but along the buff areas are where they didn't see eye to eye.  

 

 

 map credit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Arizona#/media/File:Map_of_the_United_States,_and_Territories_Together_with_Canada_From_Mitchell's_New_General_Atlas_Philadelphia_SA_Mitchell_Jr_1861.jpg

QR Code for this Website-Homepage

 

Remember homepages?  What about upgrading your phone?  The internet changes so quickly.  Someday the QR Code will be just as quaint.  In any case this is the QR for this ホームページ.

Algeria Tennessee Tilt Flag

 

Here is the second version of Algeria's Tennessee Tilt flag.  What is a Tennessee Tilt?  Basically when a state, nation, or county is on par with latitude of Europe and Africa, but it has certain tilt towards Africa, that is a Tennessee Tilt.

NAVA Interest Area Meeting: online, Flag Design Gauntlet▬ hosted by Joe Gorman

The first presentation for the Area Interest Meeting; Flag Design Gauntlet was by Russ Adams.  Adams gave an insightful presentation of his proposed flag for NAVA 55.  His proposed flag played a clever trick by turning the V in the NAVA flag into a Roman numeral V and adding a white L along the hoist and bottom.  Unfortunately Adam's flag was not chosen.  One observation was that it looked too much like the NAVA flag. 

To the left are several other flags that were proposed to represent NAVA's 55th meeting.  Ted Kaye also shared a simple memory trick as to know which NAVA meeting is next.  Just think of the most recent Superbowl.  NAVA meetings are providentially synced to the number of the Superbowl.  NAVA's first meeting and the first Superbowl took place in 1967.  Ergo Superbowl LIX and NAVA LIX will take place in the year 2025. 

The second presentation was by about the recently adopted (99.98% official) flag for Yorba Linda, California.  It was graciously presented by a former Mayor of Yorba Linda — Beth Haney. Haney was also on the committee that led the process for the adopted a flag for this municipality.

To Beth's surprise her submission nearly became the official flag of Yorba Linda, as a runner up.  However the official is the one with a yellow star on navy blue with an uneven, curved, white division towards the fly.  There were several submissions for the flag and much of the community was engaged.  The winning design was slightly modified,  the original designer had the yellow star towards the fly.  So in a way the flag of Yorba Linda is a  syncretic design, where more than one person is responsible for the design.

Mayor Haney also presented some the submissions by children.  This flag was been digitized to the left.  Perhaps if this submission made into a 'crisp  computer' version, it could have become the official flag of Yorba Linda, California? 

In the third presentation the winner of the Official Flag for the City of Old Town, Maine was given by our talented host, Joe Gorman.  In the center is a red canoe on horizontal tri-bar of green, white, green. 

This flag was so poplar that it inspired heraldic organizations to create coats of arms and other versions of the flag. 

Finally our host Joe Gorman gave presentation by proxy for Brian Cham.  Cham is graphic designer in New Zealand and has taken a special interest in designing a new flag for state of Massachusetts. 

 

色丹島旗

 

色丹島は、パレスチナ、スウィアン島、北キプロス、トランスニストリアなど、争われている国々の黄昏地帯にあります。国家になるか、国家にならないか-それが問題です。イギリスからの引用がマン島に響き渡り、日本の島に戻ったのは色丹島です。男と韻を踏む唯一の日本の場所。ほとんどの日本列島は、中に終了する必要が志摩。

おそらく貿易は順調ですか？取引はできますか？たぶん、太平洋の暖かい海の小さな斑点と北極圏の小さな斑点と交換されますか？日本が北極海クラブに参加する余地はあるのでしょうか？紺碧の暖かい太平洋にロシアの余地があるのではないでしょうか。また、色丹 そして、歯舞群島は、ロシアと日本の間の平和条約の最終版の場合に返還されることが約束されました。

それにもかかわらず、シトカン島の旗はマン島に基づいています。同様に、この島では権力分立が感じられます。アイルランド、スコットランド、イギリスの力の代わりに、色丹は日本、ロシア、アメリカの力の間でバランスが取れています。しかし、デザインを支配しているのは日本の中世の騎士の鎧です。サンダルのこれらの非常に長い歯は、泥の中を歩いたり戦ったりするのに最適です。

Labrador Flag

 

The flag of Labrador up top and Newfoundland and Labrador below.  This image is from Justin Barbour's video when he trekked across Labrador towards the Quebec border.  

To clarify Labrador is a part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.  Newfoundland is the island that looks like its pinky is sticking out, while Labrador is the eastern coastline of continental Canada.  Perhaps someday when there is population explosion in Labrador, it could become the 14th province or territory of Canada. 

And yes, Labrador dogs get their name from this region.  They were bred mostly in Newfoundland, so a better name would be Newfoundland Retriever?  Nonetheless, the beloved and loyal Canadian dog from Labrador has captured the hearts of many Americans, American than live in the suburbs.  In contrast, Americans that live in an urban atmosphere typically have a love affair with the Pitt Bull.  

Funny thing is that there are more Labrador Retrievers than there are people in Labrador.  Labrador is certainly off radar of people in the US.     

The Labrador flag is an uneven horizontal tribar of white, green, and sky blue.