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New Location for the Old Flagpole

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(Dedication)

Flagpole being installed on September 6, 2005
This photo courtesy of Gary Drummond

The flagpole on September 7

Gary Drummond of the Historic Preservation Commission
discusses the history of the flagpole

Mayor Marshall Kamena

Livermore's Poet Laureate, Connie Post reads her poem
written for the event (printed at the right)

The flag is being presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The flag flew over the capital.

Monument Reborn

Find the good wood
Find it like lost shadows
Or broken words

Take the last piece you remember
And go to find the rest
Quiet and waiting for you

Find the pieces, solid
Like history
Refusing to fall into the background
Refusing to recede from sharp morning light

Find another way
To gather up memory
In your bare hands
Until the calluses form
And the sky is grateful

Find a clearing
Unlike any you have known
And begin to rebuild
Until everything fits

Until the fading sun
Refuses to leave

And the dormant seeds of knowledge
Birth themselves
Into places you once believed fallow

Finally,

A monument will stand with us
As if this very moment was all that mattered
Carrying all of our memories
Inside the pine, the wise grain in the wood
Intricate as our past
And lasting

Connie Post, Livermore Poet Laureate