<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">About a dozen people braved the heat today to do maintenance work on the Blue Hill FIELD OF FLAGS, the Iraq War Dead Memorial.</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Tony mowed for 2 hours (with a mower provided by Lori C., thank you to both of you A LOT !) and flags were pulled from the reluctant earth, then planted again in rows. Thank you also to Becky and Rob for updating the painted sign.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">We had a lovely surprise visit from Frances Crowe of the Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq (northamptoncommittee.org). Frances is in Blue Hill on occasion and is happy to share the work done in her Massachusetts community.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">p.s. we have someone's stainless water bottle.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>More remains to be done </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">during cooler evenings or mornings. The bundles of flags are at the rear of the field, near the bench, and anyone who can find 1/2 hour or more to pitch in is eagerly encouraged to do so.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">If you are unsure of the measure, just copy the rows parallel to that which you are working on. The flags themselves make a handy measure guide, as they are 21", which is the width of the rows apart.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you to everyone who helped today. We had several conversations with interested passers-by, including a visitor from Pennsylvania who said she is planning to replicate the field in her town and asked some logistical questions.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The photos below are from today (1 and 2) and an earlier photo (3) of Dan Lourie at the field a few years back.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span> <img src="cid:046541D8-5D0D-4DC9-84AA-00B21010231E@local"> </span><img src="cid:3CA828FF-C659-44B1-81F2-5A078D4F3577@local"> <img src="cid:A5E47E8E-CA04-4A20-A1FE-A55AC34B4CA7@local"></div><div><br></div></body></html>