The Monuments and Ceremonies Commission will hold our annual Flag Day Observance at the Veterans Memorial Circle at Town Hall at 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 14. All are invited to bring their old, weathered flags.
Artist Childe Hassam’s “The Fourth of July, 1916 (The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the Preparedness Parade in May),” 1916, New York Historical Society. Hassam painted many of his other works in Greenwich.
Members of the VFW will accept the old and used flags for proper disposal at a later date, and have a brief flag ceremony, lowering an old flag and raising a new one.
The Monuments & Ceremonies Commission urges all citizens to please take a look at their flags and think about putting up a new one if theirs is tattered and worn.
In the event of inclement weather, a representative of the VFW will be at Town Hall to receive old flags at the time of the ceremony.
— an announcement from the Darien Monuments & Ceremonies Commission