If you get a chance notice the flag atop Jackson Hill today. As is usual on patriotic holidays the city flies its huge replica of the original Star Spangled Banner. It is the banner of fifteen stars and fifteen stripes like the one that flew over Fort McHenry in the dawn's early light of September 14. 1814 when Francis Scott Key watching from the deck of the USS President was inspired to write our National Anthem.
Today, after three hours of service as a ballot adjudicator for the Democratic Party (with a Republican counterpart), I drove up the back side of Jackson Hill and walked up to the old waterworks to take some pictures of Old Glory. The breezy remnants of a hurricane had her waving proudly as leaves fluttered out of the woods surrounding it.
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| The huge flag dwarfs the small building. the flagpole is right next to the huge underground water tank at the creat of Jackson Hill. |
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| Below the flag is the old waterworks which has not been in use for over sixty years. There were several folks from the city and the TRED group there getting ready for the Trek fundraising program there on Saturday. |
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That building has a special place in my memory. Back in the sixties when I was a teenager, the city allowed the Rome Art League (predecessor organization for the Rome Area Council for the Arts) and its President Michael Burton to use the building for a "coffee house." One end of the gigantic building was partitioned off. The walls were covered in burlap. Small tables and chairs were were brought in. A small stage was built. MacLean Marshall sculpture was installed. Cleve Burton and I sand as a duet.
Cleve Burton and I were probably singing something like "Ain't No More Cane On This Brazos"
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