The Flag That Never Came Down: Lithuania, America, and a Century of Unbroken Partnership ⋆ The Baltic Review (opens in new tab)

When a Lithuanian flag rose over New York’s oldest park last Saturday, it marked three anniversaries at once — and told a story about democratic solidarity that stretches back three and a half centuries. The excavators were still rumbling in Lower Manhattan’s financial district when the crowd gathered at Bowling Green Park last Saturday morning. Draped in Lithuanian tricolours — yellow, green, red — they had come to mark something that, in the grinding rhythm of New York’s weekends, could eas...