🎇💥🇬🇧💂🖊️🇺🇸❤️🔥🎆In Celebration of the Poet/ Lyricist of the U.S. National Anthem, as we ramp up to our Independence Day: >>Francis Scott Key...was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet,...best known as the author of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"...<< >>During the War of 1812,...Key began writing a poem called “Defence of Fort McHenry" [(a working title) and then] showed his poem to his brother-in-law,...[who] recommended putting the words to the tune of... [ironically]...“To Anacreon in Heaven," a popular British song composed by John Stafford Smith.... ...Soon afterward,...published the words and music together with the [new] name "The Star-Spangled Banner"... ...[finally in]1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a law that made “The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.<< ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key ... https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-wrote-the-national-anthem ... #britishmusicexperience #johnstaffordsmith #britishcomposers #britishcomposeraward #toanacreoninheaven #francisscottkey #francisscottkeyresort #francisscottkeybridge #francisscottkeyhighschool #francisscottkeymall #francisscottkeymemorial #francisscottkeymonument #thestarspangledbanner #thestarspangledbanner🇺🇸 #thestarspangledbannerflaghouse #thestarspangledbanner🇺🇸❤️ #usnationalanthem #usnationalanthem🇺🇸 #nationalanthemusa #nationalanthemusa🇺🇸 #poetryandmusic #poemsandmusic #lyricsandmusic #dallaspoetrysociety #dfwpoet #dfwmusicianscommunity #dallasmusician #whitneyhoustonstarspangledbanner #whitneyhoustonnationalanthem
Fountain+skywheel=a match 📷: @cindyrx12581 #rideoutfountain #francisscottkeymonument #deyoung #deyoungmuseum #japeneseteagarden #californiaacademyofsciences #shakespearegarden
Francis Scott Key, an American Lawyer and later became known as the author of the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. While trying to negotiate for civilians, he was then held captive. He witnessed the twenty-five hour bombardment of Fort McHenry by British during the War of 1812. Upon seeing the flag still flying, he began writing a poem about his experience that fateful night. The patriotic song that he wrote would later become the U.S. national anthem. In 1898, his monument and statue was dedicated at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. #franciscottkey #frederickmaryland #marylandpostcards #frederickmd #usnationalanthem #starspangledbanner #postcardfromtheworld #postcardfrommaryland #patriotic #francisscottkeymonument #frederickhistory #postcardfromthepast #mtolivetcemetery #mtolivetcemeterymaryland #usanthem #franciscottkeymonument #patriotism
"Life is like a Ferris wheel." Francis Scott Key Monument and SkyStar wheel. 🎆🎵🎼🎶 Noe Hill. San Francisco, California. #francisscottkeymonument #antoninmercié #skystarwheel #sprecklestempleofmusic #robertaitken #goldengateparkmusicconcourse #noehill #goldengatepark #goldengateparksf #sanfranciscolandmark #sanfranciscocalifornia #sanfranciscoca #goldengateparkmemorials #goldengateparkobservationwheel #thewanderingkey #amusementparkride #inspirationalquote #quoteoftheday
Double exposure stereoscopic image of the sculpture by Antoninhe Mercié atop the monument to Francis Scott Key in Baltimore. It is a marble sculpture covered in gold leaf depicting Columbia holding an American flag. The second image is a stereographic image from which the first image was derived by digital manipulation. #AntoninMercié #francisscottkey #francisscottkeymonument #baltimore #sculpture #marblesculpture #stereoscopic #stereoscopic3d #stereo3D #parallelview #symmetricphotography #reflectionsymmetry
Francis Scott Key Monument Location: W. Lanvale St. and Eutaw Pl., Baltimore, MD 21217 Artist: Antonin Mercié Erected: 1911 Charles Marburg gave $25,000 to his brother Theodore Marburg to hire a sculptor to create a monument to Francis Scott Key. It was restored and rededicated in 1999. Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia. In 2017, the monument was vandalized and graffitied with the words "racist anthem" spray painted on the base. As of this post, there is concern that the monument may be vandalized again due to protests concerning the historic violence and broad mistreatment of Black people. Key specifically wrote a racist lyric in his Star Spanhled Banner and was Andrew Jackson’s U.S. district attorney, where he prosecuted race and slavery laws to the fullest extent, including the death penalty. He also aggressively prosecuted early abolitionists, who had founded the anti-slavery movement in 1833._ #francisscottkey #francisscottkeymonument #boltonhillhistoricdistrict #nrhp nrhpjcg #boltonhill #boltonhilljcg #fastsketch #usk #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketcher #urbansketchers #urbansketcherbaltimore #urbansketchersbaltimore #sketchwalker #sketchwalkerbaltimore #baltimore #baltimorearchitecture #baltimoreneighborhoods #watercolorpainting #watercolor #watercolors #watercolorsketch
#francisscottkeymonument in #goldengatepark with #sutrotower #francisscottkey #lyrics #starspangledbanner #statue #park #alwayssf #igerssf
The Francis Scott Key Monument on Eutaw Place was the work of noted French sculptor Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, and dedicated in 1911. With Key standing in a row boat below, he admires a golden figure of Columbia holding the flag “still there”. • • #francisscottkeymonument #keymonument #monumentalcity #baltimorearchitecture #baltimore #maryland #baltimoreheritage #thebmorecreatives #ig_baltimore #visitbaltimore #onlyinbaltimore #onlyinmaryland #visitmaryland #nikon #nikonphotography #nikonnofilter #architecturalphotography #architecturephotography #aiabaltimore #igbaltimore #baltimorepridehon #topdmvphoto #mybmore #baltimoresbest #baltmag
Panorama of one of my childhood hangout spots. #panorama #musicconcourse #rideoutfountain #francisscottkeymonument #californiaacademyofsciences #innersunset #ucsfmedicalcenter #sutrotower #grandviewpark #deyoungmuseum #deyoungobservationdeck #goldengatepark #landscapephotography #urbanphotography #latergram
Heard @outsidelandz podcast about the Francis Scott Key monument. It’s been a while since visiting Golden Gate Park and trekked to visit. Sutro Tower overseeing the music concourse and the Academy of Sciences. The park never fails to disappoint. #outsidelands #goldengatepark #musicconcourse #francisscottkeymonument #rainywalks #sutrotower #sanfrancisco #calacademy
Francis Scott Key Monument, Fort McHenry (Orpheus Statue) Erected: 1922 Sculptor: Charles Henry Niehaus #charlesniehaus #charleshniehaus #charleshenryniehaus #francisscottkey #francisscottkeymonument #orpheusstatue #nrhp #nrhpjcg #fortmchenryjcg #locustpointnationalmonument #fortmchenry #locustpointbaltimore #locustpointjcg #locustpointbaltimorejcg #fastsketch #usk #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketcher #urbansketchers #urbansketcherbaltimore #urbansketchersbaltimore #sketchwalker #sketchwalkerbaltimore
She haunts me... #francisscottkey #francisscottkeymonument #monument #statue #goldengatepark #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #sf #citybythebay #bayarea #california #norcal #northerncalifornia #westcoast #home #placesihavebeen #alwayssf
My soul is constituted of thousands of images I cannot erase. Everything I remember vividly.... I'm a grainy old, often silent, often flickering film. - Charles Simic from The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks #sanfrancisco #goldengatepark #charlessimic #gray
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