Message of the Day – A Flag

This is the McHenry County flag.

You can tell because it helpfully has “McHenry County” printed on it.

In the lower left hand side it also has a cow.

Not a lot of them left.

When I was McHenry County Treasurer from 1966-1970, we used to get a weekly shopper out of Harvard called “Shoppers Service.”

Every week for the four-year period it seemed that a dairy farmer was going out of business.

If you want to see a typical dairy barn, go to the McHenry County Historical Museum in downtown Union. It’s not a reproduction. What you see was in a real barn.

Bigger than the Holstein in the same quadrant is an ear of corn.

No soy beans, though.

I guess it’s hard to recognize a soybean.

In the upper right hand corner is water, two trees, a leaping fish and the sun.

I’m not certain if that is supposed to be unique to McHenry County.

There also seem to be 16 stars on red horizontal stripes, which help divide the quadrants and “1837” running from top to bottom with a star between the “8” and the “3.”

Maybe the cow and ear of corn should be replaced with a traffic jam.

And, by the way, what’s with the ragged nature of this flag, found in front of the Administration Building?


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