Philadelphia: Flag Day Festival on Arch Street

The house of Betsy Ross is there on Arch Street, so it's the natural place for a Flag Day Festival.

I bought there in one of the tents an almanac where I found a curious story, about an old gentleman who had started a business of manufacturing sails. You know, those old times ships were floating a lot on Delaware River. He hoped to get rich this way, only the business was not running well. So he did what all gentlemen who wanted a fortune were doing: he targeted a rich woman and married her.

His wife died after a couple of years. The gentleman got remarried, with another rich woman, who died also very soon.

The gentleman got married again, and this was also a rich woman, who also died soon afterwards.

By now the gentleman was rich enough, so no more in need to get married again.

Well, old stories, who knows whether they are true or not?

There was a lot of fun that day on Arch Street.

Bikes and Bikers

Ice Cream Vendors

(Philadelphia)