Flag Day Saturday June 13th

[Scott Parish]

On this Saturday, June 13th LANA (Lambuth Area Neighborhood Association) will host the Annual Flag Day Festival on the front lawn of Lambuth University from 5:00 PM until 8:30 PM. This is a wonderful event for the entire family featuring entertainment, food and games. Live music will flow throughout the program featuring the National Anthem by Ross' Navy, and the distinctive music of Don’t Forget The Coffee. GAMES, ENTERTAINMENT, GOOD COMPANY AND FOOD! Loosen your belts for the bring a dish dinner which will be served at 5:30. LANA will also be providing the drinks and hot dogs! This will surely be a time filled with laughter and fun! So come one, come all! National Flag Day honors the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as our national flag by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. This new flag symbolizes the new nation. The Stars and Stripes first flew in a Flag Day celebration in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1861, the first summer of the Civil War. The first national observance of Flag Day came on June 14, 1877, the centennial of the original flag resolution. In the decades that followed, many individuals and organizations pressed to have Flag Day observed regularly. One individual who waged a life-long crusade for a national Flag day observance was Bernard J. Cigrand. As a teacher in the Stony Hill School near Waubeka, Wisconsin, he kept on his desk mounted in a bottle, a 38-star flag, 10 inches high. At the close of school in 1885, Cigrand observed a first Flag Birth Day with his pupils. The concept of the PAUSE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE is for all Americans everywhere to pause for a moment on June 14, Flag Day, at 7:00 p.m. EDT to say simultaneously the thirty-one words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. This simple ceremony is recognized by Congress as part of National Flag Day ceremonies. (Public Law 99-54) Sponsored by Lambuth Area Neighborhood Association (LANA), and Lambuth University. The LANA website is www.lana.tn.org and for more information contact Frank Neudecker at tni...@charter.net or 800-595-9025 or Lisa Silver at lmichel...@gmail.com or 731-267-4702.