Mary Who?

Mary Young Pickersgill, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

This lady sewed the flag that flew over Fort McHenry, Sept 1814
It is preserved in the Smithsonian
Frances Scott Key watched as a captive on an American ship
held behind the British fleet until the battle was over.
The shelling stopped a couple of hours before dawn
He waited for predawn to see which banner flew over the fort
He titled his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry


Then conquer we must, when our cause. It is just
And this be our motto: In God we trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave