SASB October's Stated Meeting

To honor our country’s 250th year, the Society will share the story of how Baltimoreans worked to make the Star- Spangled Banner our national anthem. And why it took so long to decide. Historians Christopher George, author of The Scots in Maryland and a Bicentennial History of  St. Andrew’s Society of Baltimore and Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812, and Robert Cummins, Jr, author of Monumental Anthem: The Untold Story of the Star-Spangled Banner, will tell how Baltimoreans in 1814 and 1918 worked to make Francis Scott Key’s poem the US Anthem.