Flanders, New York (U.S.) (original) (raw)

In fact the Big Duck is such a prominent example of mimetic architecture, that "duck architecture" has become synonymous with the term.
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The flag has narrow blue stripes at top and bottom. In the broad middle stripe the white Big Duck, outlined in black, with yellow bill and black eyes, floats on a white meandering river, w blue lowlands on the hoist side (tapering to a point at the fly end), and green lowlands on the fly side of the river. A white sky dominates the background, six stalks of the marsh vegetation called cattails flank the foreground. The upper blue stripe has FLANDERS in upper-case white letters. The lower stripe has two line of white letters:

Home of the Big Duck
Founded 1648

Ned Smith, 15 May 2013