Back in 2011 Vivian made a chef’s hat for Hattingdon that she named Bryanna — after vegan chef Bryanna Clark Grogan.
Vivian thought she had lost the file, but recently she came across it while looking through an old flash drive. The file was not in good shape — the layers unfortunately were locked — but she thought, what the heck, I will recreate it. We are glad she did.
Here are some new additions!
Bryanna with whisk.
Bryanna with Spatula.
We were thinking about putting the Bryanna design on some cool product. Alas, our “shopkeeper” retired but we are recruiting a new one. It was a toss up between Zazzle, who we used for many years until they were bought out (or something), and CafePress, who we started out with.
In keeping with the Flag Act of 1777, Betsy Ross, an upholsterer from Philadelphia, created the earliest design for the national flag of the United States. It had red and white stripes outermost with thirteen white stars arranged in a circle against a dark blue background in its upper left hand corner.
Flag Day in the United States, now called National Flag Day, is a holiday commemorating the date in 1777 when the United States approved the Betsy Ross design for its first national flag.
First US flag, the original Stars and Stripes, created by Betsy Ross.
Pres. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 as the official date for Flag Day, and in 1949 the US Congress permanently established the date as National Flag Day. The resolution read: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation.”
Each star represented a state and each stripe represented the 13 colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colors of the flag were inherited from British flags but have no official meaning.
Betsy Hattingdon
Betsy Hattingdon.
We celebrate National Flag Day with our “Betsy” hat inspired by, and in homage to, Betsy Ross. Our design tribute has 13 stripes and 13 stars, for the 13 original colonies, later to become known as states. They were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
It is that time of year when it sometimes feels a little like Summer and a little like Spring.
Hattingdon has the perfect classic hat for the coolness of Spring and the promised warmth of Summer. After we enjoy the hat, how about a few lines of beautiful poetry?
Savannah.
Spring
‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And ’tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure:— But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure…
The night is dewy as a maiden’s mouth, The skies are bright as are a maiden’s eyes, Soft as a maiden’s breath the wind that flies Up from the perfumed bosom of the South. Like sentinels, the pines stand in the park; And hither hastening, like rakes that roam, With lamps to light their wayward footsteps home, The fireflies come stagg’ring down the dark.
About these marvelous poets.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological* speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary and speech patterns of common people in poetry. The son of John and Ann Cookson Wordsworth, William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, located in the Lake District of England: an area that would become closely associated with Wordsworth for over two centuries after his death.
*Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the son of African parents who had been slaves prior to the American Civil War. Dunbar also wrote novels and plays, as well as penning the lyrics for the 1903 musical comedy, In Dahomey — the first all-African-American musical that was ever produced on Broadway. But it was as a poet — one of the first internationally popular African-American poets — that Dunbar would achieve real fame and success. He died young, of tuberculosis, aged just 33.
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