Like many rural towns that don’t have a lot, Calipatria takes pride in what it does have. A flagpole that was once world’s tallest: a 184-foot staff from which Old Glory flies at sea level.
YARMOUTH PORT — An American flag flew from a 25-foot-tall white fiberglass flagpole at Liberty Hill Inn on Wednesday. Greg Richardson stood beneath it, dwarfed by the symbol and its size and beauty.
A Westhoughton church's flagpole stood tall for nearly 40 years – but snapped from Storm Darragh’s strong winds. A parishioner of St Bartholomew’s Parish Church noticed that its bell tower's ...