New Podcast Posting: Rallying Around to Make the Flag

The Annin Flag Company is a place one tends to hear about in a year like this - a presidential election year. It’s possible that one of the candidates might try to show up there for a photo op before the November election (as Ronald Reagan did years ago).
But the flag factory is a busy place, even when the politicians are not there. It’s a place we tend to think about around Flag Day (June 14).

And for good reason.

The American flag was less than fifty years old when Alexander Annin began making US flags for the merchant ships in his sail-making shop on the New York City waterfront in the 1820’s.
Since that time Annin & Co.’s story can be seen paralleling that of the nation. For example:

*It was an Annin flag that flew at the inauguration of President Zachery Taylor, starting an inaugural tradition that has continued through the inauguration of President George W. Bush.

*An Annin flag draped the coffin of President Abraham Lincoln on its journey from Washington D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.

*The U.S. Marines raised an Annin flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in 1945
NASA selected an Annin flag to participate in Apollo 11’s mission to the moon in 1969.

In this Conversation on the Road, we visit with Dale Coots of the Annin Flag Company in New Jersey to see what Flag Day and every day is like there.

At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com