OBSERVING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TENNESSEE FLAG

PHOTOS FROM THE 39th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN VEXILLOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Girl Scouts--Emily Garretson, Jessica Keenan, and Kate Cannon--from Troop 3056, Gallatin, Tennessee, present the colours at the opening ceremony.

Convention Presentations:
Philippe Rault on 'New Flags for an Old Country'
(presenting a flag of his home town of Rostrenen, Brittany to Harry Oswald);
John Harker on 'Understanding Francis Hopkinson';
and 2005 Driver Award Winner, David Martucci, on 'Flag and Symbol Usage in Early New England'.

Laura Kidd on 'A Splendid and Beautiful Flag: Restoring and Remembering America's History Stitch by Stitch';
Patrice de la Brosse on 'Flag Display and Precedence in Government Circles: The Québec Case';
Gus Tracchia on 'The Sun of May: Argentina 1810-1818';
and Lee Herold on 'Flags in our Lives'.

The Nashville Public Libary (with the Metro Nashville flag at half-staff?), and Lynn Knights' display at the NAVA meeting.

Two Driver Flags: A full-scale replica of Captain William Driver's 'Old Glory', and Philippe Rault with a full-size replica of the flag of the Rock City Guards, the Confederate infantry battalion from Nashville in which Captain Driver's son, George W. Driver, fought and died. The Tennessee capitol building is in the background.

Group Photo with 'Old Glory' in Bicentennial Park.

VexiBits: Lee Herold with the first Minnesota flag, Devereaux Cannon with a UFE, and Dave Martucci's Savings Bond flag.

At the banquet: Whitney Smith, Ph.D.; Mary Ann Docktor-Smith with Dick Clark; Rich Monahan with Dave Martucci;
and Laura Kidd and Ted Kaye with Lee Herold and Janet Martucci

NAVA President Peter Ansoff; Keynote speaker, Senator Douglas Henry, and the gathered throngs of NAVAnics.

The business meeting; Peter Ansoff on 'The Future of NAVA'; and Dr. Peter Orenski on 'Some (Really, Really) New Perspectives on Vexillology'.

Philippe Rault, Harry Oswald, Devereaux Cannon and Ted Kaye with the pre-1963 flag of the City of Nashville.

The hotel was also headquarters for the Southern Festival of Books. And some people think vexillologists are strange? Martin Francis made some new friends for NAVA.

Al Cavalari (The Flag Guys) is interviewed on C-SPAN.

At the Tennessee State Museum: the first Tennessee flag, which was owned by the flag's designer, LeRoy Reeves, and first flown at a National Guard encampment on 22 May 1905.
The flag was adopted as the Tennessee flag on 17 April 1905.

Candace Adelson, curator of textiles at the Tennessee State Museum, reviews the history of flags in Tennessee.

Battle flag of the 5th Confederate Infantry Regiment. This flag is listed as the most threatened of the musuem's collection. It looks good in the photo, but it is suffering active deterioration as a result of an earlier conservation effort. NAVA donated $300 to the conservation of this flag.

Dr. Adelson shares with the NAVA conventioneers a glimpse at some of the others treasures in the museum's collections.