Brighton-Allston Bicentennial: Children Form Human Flag

Location: steps of Brighton High School, 25 Warren Street, Brighton. School children from all over the neighborhood gathered on May 11, 2007 to celebrate the bicentennial year of Brighton's founding (after seceding from Cambridge). This "human flag" recreates a similar event at the centennial celebration in 1907.

Co-chairs of the bicentennial organizing committee: Theresa Hynes and Tim Schofield:

Human Flag Recreation: This Morning at 8:30!

Part of the Brighton-Allston Bicentennial celebration.

Re-creation of the Centennial Living Flag at Brighton High School, 8:30-10 a.m. This event will re-create the “Living Flag” which was the cornerstone of the Centennial Celebration in 1907. More than 400 children from local schools dressed in red, white and blue and holding colored bunting will be arranged to form a living American flag. Location is the steps of Brighton High School. An ice cream party will follow.

Brighton High School, 25 Warren Street, Brighton.