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History Lessons

Sitting atop the world…on a flagpole

Circa 1920, a man named Edward Flagg shows his love for the American flag by hugging a flagpole. (Library of Congress)

We all know that flags fly from flagpoles. But, in the 1920s, flagpoles often came with something else attached: human beings! How the Roaring Twenties’ fad of flagpole sitting began is lost to history, but many men, women and children called attention to themselves by climbing up poles and sitting there. And sometimes standing on… continue