Ad
related to: proposed new maine flag design
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2024 Maine flag referendum (formally known as Question 5) was a legislatively referred state statute held on November 5, 2024, that sought to change the official state flag from the current version, first enacted in 1909, to a variation of the 1901 flag.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Mainers are going to decide in November whether to adopt a new flag, but the state needs to settle on a design first. Anyone can submit a design proposal as long as it's ...
Maine resident Jeff Van West also submitted a design for the new flag. His flag had a white star on a dark blue of a night sky over a lighter blue representing the rivers, ponds, and oceanfront of Maine. He had the tree extend off the flag border to give the feeling of being in the forest looking out over the water. The measure to change the ...
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Lemire's design stood out as a "beautiful, faithful representation of an Eastern White Pine tree." Maine names winner of state flag redesign contest: Here's ...
Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages
Flag design involves vivid and uncomplicated imagery – think of the American flag itself – and by that standard the Pine Tree Flag is superior. Rooks: Why Maine, The Pine Tree State, should ...
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
The design was also used by the militia both as a military flag and as the design for the buttons of the new uniforms. The Maine Railroad Company, known as “The Pine Tree Line”, also used a variant on its conductors' uniform buttons. The design was also used by the people of Maine in various capacities, such as at the "Old Home Week ...