Sales of Confederate flag banned at Field Days (VT)
Posted on August 4, 2016 | Addison County Featured Field Days 2016
By Sam Hartley
NEW HAVEN — There will be no sales of merchandise bearing the image of the Confederate Battle Flag at Addison County Fair and Field Days.
The Field Days Board of Directors on Monday forbade sales of the “Stars and Bars” at the fair, which starts next Tuesday, after it received a petition signed by more than 500 people demanding the ban.
“It’s deeper than an offensive issue,” Cornwall resident Piper Harrell said at the Aug. 1 board meeting ...
Harrell, with support from members of the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, created the petition on Change.org a little more than a week before the Aug. 1 board meeting. On the website, 416 signed the petition, and more signed paper versions of the petition bringing the total to more than 500 ...
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