The Greenfield-Central High School and eighth grade marching bands and guard performed “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Sept. 13 homecoming game while a skydiver landed with an American flag. The ...
American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
This Thursday marks the anniversary of that siege, which famously inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” when he saw the flag still standing from this site. Also known as ...