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The national day of recognition celebrating the American flag — June 14 — has roots in the Pittsburgh region and Pennsylvania. On this day in 1777, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution approving the design for the first flag of the United States, which at that time was “thirteen stripes
Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754.
Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM
John Steward, Special to The Times
Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war.
After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all the colonies in the buildup to revolution. We were already up in arms over the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, and now we were becoming national players, dangerously hosting and abetting anarchy.