The flag was first raised over city hall on June ... Its original and longest-tenured tenant, Alaska Art Tile, is the cause of the tiled exterior. Per one of their advertisements, Alaska Art ...

Daren Herman, grandson of Alaska flag designer Benny Benson, was in the state for the first time to accept an honorary degree ...

"You need to have an exhibit of contemporary Alaska art," he said. "They told me, 'No! It cannot be done.' "That was like waving a red flag at a bull to me." The French art bureaucracy has rules ...

“Alaska’s Flag,” the simple poem written by Marie Drake in 1927 and set to music by Elinor Dusenbury in 1938, is a work of art, just as the flag designed by Benny Benson is a work of art.

ANCHORAGE, AlaskaANCHORAGE, Alaska — A neglected site where the Alaska territorial flag was designed, sewn and first flown will be demolished despite last-minute efforts by Alaskans and a ...

A drawing contest became a life-changer for 13-year-old Benny Benson. The year was 1927. The Alaska ­American Legion sponsored a ­design-the-Alaska-flag contest for children in the seventh ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska has issued a corrected birth certificate for the teenage designer of the Alaska flag, after researchers who were looking into his heritage found records ...

FILE - This undated file photo shows a building that remains at the site of the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska, where the territorial flag, which later became the Alaska state flag, was first ...

ANCHORAGE — A neglected site where the Alaska territorial flag was designed, sewn and first flown will be demolished despite last-minute efforts by Alaskans and a preservation group to save it.