Posted on 07/02/2023 4:08:00 AM PDT by Libloather
A tiny town in Maine has been divided by a plan to build the world's tallest flagpole, with an American flag the size of a football field and an accompanying museum and theme park.
The scheme is the brain child of a local businessman, Morrill Worcester.
Worcester's family-owned business, Worcester Wreaths, cultivates thousands of acres of balsam forest used to make wreaths for Christmas. Since 1992 he has also been donating wreaths for the tombs of American veterans, and in 2007 the charity Wreaths Across America was formed.
Worcester came up with the plan for a gigantic patriotic gesture in his home state, in the town of Columbia Falls - home to 485 people, 50 miles north east along the coast from Acadia National Park.
The town is known for blueberries, lobster fishing and being among the last pristine wildernesses on the East Coast.
But last year, Worcester unveiled his plan to build a flagpole 1,461 feet tall, rising 1,776 feet above sea level, complete with an elevator to take people to the top.
The flagpole would be taller than the Empire State Building, and give views all the way to Canada.
The $1 billion scheme would include history museums telling the country's story through veterans' eyes, plus a 4,000-seat auditorium, restaurants and monument walls with the name of every deceased veteran dating to the Revolution - 24 million names.
Worcester has named the project the Flagpole of Freedom Park, and wants to create a patriotic theme park, replete with gondolas to ferry visitors around.
It would require paving over woods for parking spaces and construction of housing for hundreds, maybe thousands of workers - potentially transforming this oasis into a sprawl of souvenir shops, fast-food restaurants and malls.
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The flagpole with a history museum is a nice idea. (though he could stop at 1,000 ft & still be the tallest)
The rest of the plans make it sound like Disney or something and way over the top.
Yes, replacements would be costly & often. I can’t imagine it would be made of fabric.
I thought it was just a flagpole ...
Nice chart, I was in the top deck of the Tokyo Skytree just a few days ago. I don’t think a flag big enough to be seen from the ground could practically be mounted on something so tall.
You’re a deep thinker, someone that thinks beyond what’s placed in front of him.
You have a good point - the physics. We have 60 MPH winds up here that crop up in just a few hours. Imagine those operating that flag pole not paying hourly attention to weather reports and get caught in a huge wind storm. A flag the size of a foot ball field fluttering in a wind storm would certainly put the whole structure to Mother Nature’s test.
I’ve worked with the Worcesters, a hard working family that employs many and brings prosperity to a blighted region of our state. Let em build it.
Was pondering same. Winters are pretty brutal in ME. Blistering cold and wind.
Yeah but we’ll worth the trip if you avoid the more liberal coastal towns. The rural areas are solid co servative in many places, the area is beautiful, the seafood is fresh and top notch, and although the locals are a people who are independant minded and close knit which means kinda clannish, they are fairly welcoming to folks. The scenery is stunning- truly,a place to kick back, relax and enjoy nature set in a beautiful arena
On one of my last trips to maine I was on a conference call while I was driving. I lost the signal and regained it 50 miles later.
Cutting down a couple hundred acres of trees won’t even be noticed.
I support it.
Just came across this.
https://www.acuity.com/about/flagpole
Visible from a considerable distance, the flagpole is located on Acuity’s campus along Interstate 43 between Milwaukee and Green Bay.
The flagpole is nearly 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.
At 70 by 140 feet, the flag is the world’s tallest symbol of freedom.
Flags are taken down at the first sign of wear, such as tearing along the seams. A professional seamstress uses an industrial-grade sewing machine kept at Acuity to make repairs.
The 9,800-square-foot flag weighs 250 pounds.
When New England, succumbs too Glo-Bull Warming, Climate Change, Grets's Curse, and Algore Theology; sinking below the waves; taking the beach front Martha's Vineyard mansion of the "Lying African" with it; the beautiful Star Spangled Banner of the "Patriotic Down Easters"...."still waves"...
Lol- very true. Further inland, there are areas so vast and actually “pristine” that you could walk for days and days through Forest and see no one. So much of our nation is owned and controlled by gov, made into “parks”, and remain untouched and are so vast and wild that they can truly be called pristine. Millions upon millions of acres- shut off to human development. Animals enjoy far more land than man does in the US im betting, yet we are told abput how we are “crowding them out of their natural habitats”, and. Othing could be further from the truth
If they make the flag camouflage, the wind won’t see it and it won’t wear out
To me, Florida is very out of the way.
I hope to never have to visit the land of snakes, bugs and alligators.
Maine is right next door, the land of the New England Forest Rally (July 14-15), Andover Old Home Days (tanks and other military vehicles on parade), great OHRV and snowmobile trails and of course, Marden's.
The only drawback to Maine is its' greedy, rich, leftist, extremist, white supremacist, bigoted, racist, fascist, NAZI democrat politicians, along with their RINO senators.
Florida? Spent 3 1-2 years there, courtesy of the USAF. Snakes and ‘gators were the least objectionable things.
Misleading title. It is a plan to build a billion-dollar complex that includes the world’s tallest flagpole.
Maybe someone needs to try to talk with him.
Disney’s follies are expensive, but they will not kill off Disney, sadly. Their profit margins are so enormous that they can lose an enormous portion of their US market; they have become a CHINESE company and don’t really give a shit about the U.S. market.
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