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Article: Legend of our nation's flag creation believable; Choosing Betsy Ross to sew it was very plausible
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2006
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This week (Jan. 30) in 1836 Elizabeth Ross, a three-time widow,
died in the city she had lived in most of her life, Philadelphia,
which happens to be the city that birthed not only the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution, but also the flag that symbolized
the nation formed by those two documents.
And Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross, according to legend, also happens to
be the maker of that flag.
But legend and fact are two different things, and the controversy
over whether Betsy actually did sew our first "Old Glory" continues
to this day. Since most historians require documented proof before
they subscribe to a theory, and since there is no irrefutable
documentation that Betsy designed ...