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image located by Steven Shumaker, 16 February 2007
Source: www.gettysburgflag.com
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The flag as shown at www.gettysburgflag.com/images/Portfolio/City%20%26%20Town/AmsterdamWindmil2.JPG is yellow with a narrow vertical purple fly stripe. Toward the hoist is a large windmill, and the words One Community Many Cultures. Written downwards on the purple stripe is AMSTERDAM and at the bottom NY.
Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019
According to the Daily Gazette, the flag of Amsterdam was designed by (at the
time) an eighth grader named Jennifer Kielbasa in 2000. Her design was selected
out of more than 400 student designs submitted as a part of the city's flag
design contest, receiving $100 for designing the flag. The flag contest was
headed by Lynette Du Rose, the city's community development and grants
assistant.
The designer says she uses the windmill as inspiration from
the city's seal. The flag has been simplified from the original design by
Kielbasa, as this design had flags of many countries and Puerto Rico on the
turbines. The text above the windmill originally also had "Many" above the
windmill. "NY" was also in a box of a different color.
Daniel Renterķa,
8 February 2024
image located by Paul Bassinson, 13 October 2019
Source:
http://www.amsterdamny.gov/
Paul
Bassinson, 13 October 2019