Fortunately for posterity, he did not call it Mrs. Pickersgill's flag, but referred to a "star-spangled banner." Key wrote quickly that night—in part because he already had a tune in his head, a ...
GETTYSBURG Pa. - The author of the "The Star-Spangled Banner," which will ring out at thousands of baseball games and parades across the United States this Independence Day weekend, may have been tone ...
Few people know the real story of "The Star-Spangled Banner," or that the massive flag that inspires it still exists.