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by Scott Mainwaring, Vexilloid Tabloid #53 Every June, Portland’s Rose Festival welcomes “the fleet” from the US and Canada.  Moored along the Willamette river, the ships display a colorful range of flags to see—ensigns, jacks, signal flags, and courtesy flags. A large Maple Leaf Flag, along with many smaller flags, flies from the sailing ketch HMCS Oriole, a Canadian Navy sail training vessel…

from Vexilloid Tabloid #53 Note: “Flutterings” — notes from the editor on our last meeting — is a regular feature in The Vexilloid Tabloid. July Flutterings You Need to Know In our July meeting, hosted by Ted Kaye, 16 PFA members enjoyed a lively 3+-hour evening of flags and other wide-ranging topics.  As the host, Ted led the introductions and moderated the discussion. John Schilke exulted in…

The fifty-third edition of our club newsletter, The Vexilloid Tabloid, is here, featuring: The Confederate Flag Flap (Ted Kaye) Flags of the Rose Festival Fleet (Scott Mainwaring) A Flag for Pluto (Scott Mainwaring) The Cascadian Nautical Flag (Alexander Baretich) And, as always: notes from our last meeting, flags in the news, the Portland flag miscellany, the What’s that Flag? quiz, and more!