Decorating the 4th

Today at Connecticut Country House it’s all hands on deck in decorating the exterior with our collection of flags.  Each area around the house gets its own unique flag – traditional flags hanging from a pole or mounted hanging flat with nails, long antique buntings – hanging down straight or swagged, and semi-circular buntings that are always mounted over the three eyebrow windows of the old house’s front facade.  They’re all freshly washed, and drying in the sun – next stop the ironing board – and then up the ladders we go to hang and primp them in place.

Happy Fourth of July!