State flag program comes to libraries

Crook County Library will host the program “The Wyoming State Flag and the Women Who Made It Fly” by Kylie McCormick on Friday, November 8 at 2 p.m. at the Hulett Branch Library and 7 p.m. in the library meeting room in Sundance. The program is free and open to the public.

Before being deployed to France, Edward Marsh Turner, M.D. ensured that every person in the Wyoming National Guard Medical Corps was issued the first Wyoming flags printed in the state, hand-held on papery silk, a small piece of home to carry into the horrors of war.

The pocket-sized Wyoming flag carried into World War One f...