NAVA 39

OBSERVING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TENNESSEE FLAG

THE NAVA 39 FLAG

Designed by NAVA member James W. Ritchie of Elizabethton, Tennessee.

The inspiration for the NAVA 39 flag is the flag of the State of Tennessee. NAVA 39 is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, in the centennial year of the adoption of the Tennessee flag. The fimbratied blue stripe on the fly of of the Tennessee flag was moved and reshaped to form the "V" of vexillology, and the Tennessee tri-star badge shifted up to be centered on the triangle above the "V".

Other candidates for the NAVA 39 flag, and their designers:

By Sophie Rault of Rostren, Brittany (based on the flags of Tennessee, Nashvile-Davidson County, and NAVA).

By Zachary Harden of Havelock, North Carolina (variations on the same theme as James Ritchie's). Zach's design with the white "V" was the runner-up to James Ritchie's design.

By Nora Cannon of Sumner County, Tennessee. Nora's design came in third place. It is a based on Nashville's "Music City" theme, and is a variation on the design of the 1897 Tennessee flag, with the 1905 flag's tri-star logo.

By John C. Karp, Jr. of Minden, Nevada. Mr. Karp's deisgn draws from Nashville's history. The colours are drawn from the flag of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The gold "V" represents the "V" in the NAVA flag, and the The white disk and the fleur-de-lis are taken from the Nashville flag. The white disk stands for devotion to the well being of all people. The fleur-de-lis symbolizes both the iris which brighten the springtime in the Nashville metropolitan area (and which is the State Flower of Tennessee), and the early ( 1710 ) French fur traders who founded a trading post (French Lick) at the future site of Nashville. The two stars represent the fact that Nashville ( founded in 1779 during the American Revolution ) was named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Nash, who was mortally wounded two years earlier in the Battle of Germantown. (Brigadier Generals wear one silver star on each shoulder.)

By Richard Pruitt of Fort Worth, Texas.