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Freedom and Glory is excited to announce the recipients of the Fall 2024 Beacon Scholarship for Rural America: Tiffany Suire and Angeljoliss Myers. These two recipients exemplify the American spirit, showing true patriotism and an inspiring dedication to their community.

As one of the oldest flag retailers in the business, we take pride in delivering top-tier flags from the best flag makers in America. For years, we have built a reputation for providing state and American flags that fly beautifully while withstanding fierce winds and harsh weather. In a testament to our commitment to quality, we're excited to introduce our latest offering, the Patriarch Tough-Ply Poly Flag, now available for the five major U.S. military branches and all 55 U.S. states and territories. Read this blog post to learn more about the unique qualities of this remarkable flag.

The American flag symbolizes our country’s freedom and the brave men and women who gave their all to ensure liberty and freedom. When choosing a flag for your business, you want one crafted from the highest quality products proven to withstand the elements and last the test of time. That’s where the Eder Flag Manufacturing Company comes in!

Throughout history, several nations have woven design elements of the American flag into their own national flag designs. Playwright Oscar Wilde once said that "imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery.” The red, white and blue colors, the horizontal stripes, and the white stars on a blue field are design elements of our American flag - first adopted by our Continental Congress - that show up or influence official flags in countries around the world. As you review the following national flag designs, see if you agree that some of these international flags share attributes with the stars and stripes of "Old Glory," our revered U.S. flag.

The Fall 2020 Beacon® Scholarship for Rural America had the largest number of scholarship applicants since Freedom and Glory introduced the scholarship in 2018. We received applications from 25 out of the 50 U.S. states including first-time states such as: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia.

The Fall 2019 Beacon® Scholarship for Rural America had the largest number of scholarship applicants since Freedom and Glory introduced the scholarship in 2018. We also received applications from a wider variety of states this time around including Alabama, California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

High above Sheboygan, WI is the tallest flagpole in the United States. The flagpole was erected in 2014 by Acuity Insurance, after their old flagpole toppled over as a result of years of stress and high winds. Acuity’s flagpole is 400 feet tall; not surprisingly, building such a huge flagpole is a major engineering challenge. Structural stability and maintainability have to be calculated carefully before the project even begins.

2018 was the inaugural year of Freedom and Glory’s Beacon® Scholarship for Rural America. Our leadership team launched the Beacon® Scholarship this year as a way to recognize and support hard-working rural students across America. This fall, we announced the first two winners of the scholarship, and now we are delighted to announce the winner of our spring 2019 award.

Ever see a state flag that really catches your eye and makes you wonder what the story behind it might be? At Freedom and Glory, we thought it’d be fun to do a completely subjective, unscientific roundup of unusual and memorable U.S. state flags. Here are our results:

We’ve all been told for years that Betsy Ross designed and sewed the first-ever American flag, with its 13 stripes and 13 stars arranged in a circle on a blue field. As we’ve always heard it, Betsy was presented with a sketch of that flag design by General George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross, and she then began the cutting and stitching to create the flag we’ve all become so familiar with.

Freedom and Glory recently sat down with our Creative Manager, Latasha Anderson, and our Web Coordinator, Tabetha Carnahan, to discuss the benefits of street banners in any community and effective banner design. Latasha is a graduate of the Raleigh Art Institute and has over seven years of experience as a graphic designer. Tabetha has over three years of experience at Freedom and Glory in sales and has led our website marketing efforts for the last two years. In addition to answering our frequently asked questions, we have an online Comprehensive Street Banner Guide that provides further assistance to our customers.

The City Durham flag features four colors; royal blue, red, gold and white. Each color represents a core value or principle of Durham. The blue is for courage, red for action and progress, gold for high quality in all growth and white represents lofty ideas. The seven stars represent seven features of Durham that make the city what it is; the arts, commerce and industry, education, medicine, human relations, sports and recreation and the preservation of Durham’s heritage.

Just like how the United States Flag has evolved over time with the history of the US, the national Flag of Mexico draws its symbolism from it’s history. The flag consists of two parts, the colors (Green, Red and White) and the emblem in the center (an eagle holding a snake).

Earth Day is celebrated April 22 and was set in place to encourage people to take care of our environment. It is important to educate people about our earth and the many ways that we can protect it for future generations. The first Earth day in 1970 marked the beginning of the environmental movement. It was so popular that 20 million Americans participated; since then earth day has spread all across our planet and is now a official United Nations holiday. Earth day has encouraged many acts to go in place which protect our environment from senseless harm. Fly the Earth Day Flag this April 22 to spread knowledge about this important holiday.