‘Flag man’ brings color to the Elm City
Vendor sells flags, memories to residents
Between the I-95 highway and the placid New Haven Harbor waters, 35 flags continually beat back and forth, defying their otherwise colorless urban surroundings.
Lea Yu/Contributing Photographer
Bill Shields, the “Flag Man of Long Wharf Drive,” sits in the van that serves as the storefront for his flag-selling business.
Recent Articles
Muenzer: Some people
Q&A | Recycling metal sustainably
Rain keeps Elis away from game
Most Popular
Viewed
- Cosi to shut doors
- A survey of drug use on campus
- Waiting for Swensen
- Levin’s salary third-highest in Ivy League
- Early admit rates to drop
- Another downtown casualty
- Hard times, part 2 of 3: Downturn to affect University funds
- Yale launches 'unprecedented' initiative in India
- Transfer students overcome hurdles
- Hard times, part 1 of 3: Economy hurts colleges
Emailed
- Yale launches 'unprecedented' initiative in India
- Early admit rates to drop
- Cosi to shut doors
- Hard times, part 2 of 3: Downturn to affect University funds
- Obituary | Katz remembered as patients’ advocate
- Morales: Return to service
- Eli brings tech touch to Bass
- LeWitt on display
- THE GAME | Eli dad makes 1968 epic
- Waiting for Swensen
Commented
- Waiting for Swensen
- Knights of Columbus ‘defend’ marriage
- Prop. 8 rally draws crowd
- A survey of drug use on campus
- Baran: More to do to help workers
- Levin’s salary third-highest in Ivy League
- Maltby: Yale’s choice, not ours
- Group says Yale invests irresponsibly
- Early admit rates to drop
- Morales: Return to service
