Best Bet: Flag Day Celebration at Farm Museum

The Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 South Center St. in Westminster, is the place to celebrate Flag Day.

The Boy Scouts will be commemorating Flag Day once again this year on Friday, June 14 at 7 p.m. The Flag Ceremony includes instruction on properly raising, lowering, and disposing of an old, wornout flag.

There will be 4 or 5 flags to retire. All will be cut up except for one and it will be done there as Boy Scouts demonstrate what each part means as it is cut up. Then, the scouts will place the flags into the pit to retire them, according to a news release.

Flag Day is a celebration of the adoption of the American Flag by Continental Congress in the First Flag Resolution of June 14, 1777. Flag Day was not officially recognized until President Harry Truman signed it into law in 1949.The idea of an annual day to celebrate the Flag is believed to be the brainchild of B.J. Cigrand, a schoolteacher, from Fredonia, Wisconsin who on June 14, 1885 arranged for school children toobserve the first unofficial observance of Flag Day, according to a news release.

The public is invited to attend this Flag Day Observance at the Carroll County Farm Museum.The Board of County Commissioners sponsors this event and other activities at the Carroll County Farm Museum through Recreation and Parks. The Farm Museum is located at 500 South Center Street,Westminster, MD.