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Fun with Flags – A Daily Celebration of History, Flags, Fun and Community
Join Patricia Acheson and Dan Conlin for an illustrated talk about what started off as a diversion to entertain themselves and neighbours during the COVID lockdown and has turned into a four year project to mark an interesting anniversary every day with a flag flown from their house. The flags commemorate historical, cultural and scientific events – as well as the downright strange – with the beauty and quirkiness. Visiting the flags has a great community exercise and daily destination for many.
PATRICIA ACHESON is originally from Ontario where she worked as an editor at Amnesty International in Ottawa. She came to Halifax to study journalism at the University of King’s College and worked at The Daily News and as a freelance editor.
DAN CONLIN is a historian and the curator at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax. His MA thesis explored privateering in Nova Scotia. He is the author of Pirates of the Atlantic: Robbery, Murder and Mayhem off Canada’s East Coast and War Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit: 1941-1945.
This presentation is sponsored by the Wagner family in memoriam of their father, long term SCANS member Captain Earle Wagner 1923-2023.