That flag, featuring a pine tree and the words “AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN,” dates to the Revolutionary War, but has recently been associated with the Christian nationalist movement and the false ...

The Pine Tree Flag waves at the annual commemorations of the 1772 Pine Tree Riot in Weare, N.H., one of the first acts of resistance against British authority by American colonists.

In 1909 Maine adopted its current flag depicting the state’s coat of arms on a blue field, which is what vexillologists refer to as a “seal on a bedsheet,” to replace its previous pine tree ...

A Pine Tree flag, a symbol originally from the Revolutionary War but more recently linked to groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol, has been removed from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza.

In the new version created by Adam Lemire of Gardiner, the tree is an Eastern White Pine, which is Maine’s state tree, and has 16 branches to represent the 16 counties in Maine.

A Pine Tree flag, a symbol originally from the Revolutionary War but more recently linked to groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol, has been removed from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza.

A Pine Tree flag, a symbol originally from the Revolutionary War but more recently linked to groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol, has been removed from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza.