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| The Stars and Stripes Raised |
http://books.google.com/books?
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| From Homesteads to Cellar Holes |
http://listsearches.rootsweb.
From Homesteads to Cellar Holes - Catamount Hill - Colrain, Mass. (Part 2 of 2)
http://listsearches.rootsweb.
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Photos on Catamount Hill
http://www.franklinsites.com/
http://www.franklinsites.com/
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Marker on Catamount Mountain near Colrain, Massachusetts. Marker commemorating spot where American flag was first raised over a school
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
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Mary Lyon Foundation owns the land and monument where the American flag first flew over an American schoolhouse on top of Catamount Hill in Colrain.
http://www.mlef.org/programs.
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"The First Flag Raising at an American Public School 1812"
Painting by Frank E. Schoonover
Painted in 1940 and published in the 1941 du Pont Company Calendar (June).
Reproduced here with permission.
Painted in 1940 and published in the 1941 du Pont Company Calendar (June).
Reproduced here with permission.
Frank Schoonerer was commissioned to portray the original flag-raising when a re-enactment took place 100 years ago. More information about the artist may be read here and here.
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Catamount on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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“Catamount” Redux - a nice color photo of the site showing the flag and stone monument
http://littlebangtheory.
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The Puzzle of Catamount Hill - Being a Report of Pioneer Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts During the Century After the War of Independence 1780-1880 by Davenport, Elmer F
http://www.biblio.com/books/
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Gazette & Courier - Monday, September 13, 1875
The Catamount Hill Coleraine Reunion
Complete text: http://www.publicationarchive.
See also http://www.publicationarchive.com/archiveArticle.cfm?gpt=30&cs=5&ID=31846&g=184
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Dr. Ammon Davenport wrote “Reminiscences of a Barefoot Boy”, an account of growing up on Catamount Hill in the 1830's.
The following website has a lengthy article about his life: http://paulwmarino.org/open-
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The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era, By Abert Boime, Cambridge University Press
http://www.nytimes.com/books/
The conjunction of the flag and its staff may constitute the fusion of male and female symbols that symbolically restores the female to wholeness and reconstructs the lost phallic mother. Around the time of the War of 1812, the standard was set up over a log cabin schoolhouse on Catamount Hill, one of the Berkshires, in western Massachusetts, to declare the solidarity of the locals with the prowar Republicans. Two local sisters, Rhoda and Lois Shippee, patched together the flag, and their young relative, Fanny Bowen Shippee, later commemorated the event in verses redolent with the male-female symbolism associated with the flag and its staff:See also New York Times book review: http://www.nytimes.com/books/
Mrs. Rhoda Shippee, who stood for the right,The ballad goes on to state:
Gave cloth for the stars and the field of pure white;
It was wove on her loom, and hatchelled from tow,
And of beautiful finish, as white as the snow.
And Mrs. Lois Shippee for the "union" gave blue,
Which she spun, colored, and wove -- it was lovely to view.
And they planted that staff, and they worked with a will,First comes the labor of the women in gathering the raw materials and weaving them into a finished design, and next follows the hoisting of the flag by the males "as straight as an arrow." The final act is the salute of the collective body of men and women to the elevated and proudly waving "Flag of the Free."
`Twas as straight as an arrow, and as trim as a quill,
And all the people were there from "the Hill."
They stood there in groups a-waiting to see
That emblem so grand -- the Flag of the Free!
See also Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/
