In 1922, a woman named Dolly McMonegal did a job for the state in which she lived, the state of Utah. They needed a state flag, and she was a talented seamstress. Dolly did a state flag for Utah, and for the last 88 years, that’s been the flag for the state of Utah. Unfortunately, says a state representative, it’s an incorrect flag. Rep. Julie Fisher says that Utah’s flag has had an error on it since 1922.
“Back in 1922, a woman (Dolly McMonegal) made a finely embroidered copy of the flag for the state,” Fisher says in her resolution to turn the state flag back to what the state guideline says it should look like. “The ‘1847’ is supposed to be inside the shield. If you look at the state seal — which the flag is based on — it is inside the shield there. My resolution would allow people to use the flags they have today as long as they want, then when they replace them with a new flag, it would follow the actual statute.”
The flag, which was handmade, is meant to mirror the symbol on the state seal of Utah. On the seal, the 1847 at the bottom is within the shield design, not outside of it. Of course, mistakes can happen even in today’s modern technological era, so there’s no faulting Dolly and her hand-made flag. If we can’t even get money to look right, how are we expected to hand-sew a flag without any mistakes?
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