There were 100 Smithsonian Penguin Young Reader Level 4 books entitled, The Star-Spangled Banner delivered by chairman of The Commissioner Charles Gause (CCG) No. 433 Chapter of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812. The books were donated to public elementary schools in Brunswick County. 20 books were delivered to 10 schools by Cindy Gulledge, Co-Chair, Brunswick Country Schools/Patrioric Education. There were 50 books delivered to 25 schools by Co-Chair of New Hanover County, Kitsy Lackey, CCG Librarian, Susan DeGroote, and Dale Spencer. Pender Counties 8 Elementary Schools had 16 books delivered by CCG member Marianne Grant.
The books were delivered along with Star Spangled Banner Day, September 14 rack cards. Not all schools received the books in time as we were interrupted by Hurricane Florence.
Now there is no excuse that our children in three counties won’t have the opportunity to learn about The War of 1812. They just need to go to their school library and sign out The Star-Spangled Banner book to read. Anyone wanting to purchase this book for their children can order it from Amazon-Prime.
Rack Card that was distributed to all of the Elementary Schools
Volunteers from the Commissioner Charles Gause No.433 Chapter of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 who manned the forces of passing out the wreaths to hundreds of people along with their volunteers from the Wilmington and Leeland area. Also, the Civil Air Patrol came to the rescue to assist opening up additional boxes of wreaths to place on the tables for all the guests who placed the wreaths on the graves of the Veterans.
