The Flag House

The Girl Scouts took a trip to the Flag House in Baltimore.  If you go there, I recommend doing a tour or program because it was so neat!  We got to tour the Pickersgill's House where the ladies lived who actually sewed the flag that flew over Ft.McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key to write his poem, The Defense of Fort McHenry, that later became the Star Spangled Banner. We got to see how these ladies lived and were able to afford to purchase the house themselves, quite an accomplishment for women in those times.  The house has many things that the Pickersgills actually owned like tea service and portraits.  We also got to see the room they most probably did the sewing in, which was the main bedroom.  The ladies would sew sections in the house and then take it all down the road to a brewery in the evenings to sew it together because of how large the flag was.
The girls also got a lesson on flags of Britain and the U.S., and in flag etiquette.  They learned how to properly fold and carry a flag as well.

Ourside the Flag House and the Star-Spangled Banner Museum is a large map of the US made of rock from each state in the shape of that state.  So the girls all stood on the state they were born in.

There is a lovely rose garden in the courtyard too.  It was a gorgeous day!