You’re a Grand Old Flag: Mount Vernon’s First Fourth of July
Over the many years that I’ve lived in Mount Vernon, I’ve only had one occasion on which to enter the Skagit County Courthouse on Kincaid Street. I did so not because I had any official business to conduct, but because I had read a story by our beloved local historian, Dick Fallis, entitled, Early Day Flag Still “Flies” at Courthouse. As part of our Tales of the Magic Skagit series on downtown Mount Vernon’s historic buildings, I had to see this bit of history dating back to the town’s founding for myself.