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Published June 15, 2011, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: A high flying flag

A photo timeline of the flagpole on Barn Bluff. -- RE photos by Stacy Bengs


Veterans salute the American flag Tuesday afternoon shortly after it was raised up a 40-foot flagpole as part of a Flag Day ceremony atop Barn Bluff.

  • Veterans salute the American flag Tuesday afternoon shortly after it was raised up a 40-foot flagpole as part of a Flag Day ceremony atop Barn Bluff.
  • K C Flueger parks his truck in a quarry on the bluff Friday and uses a crane to lift the flagpole up over a ledge.
  • K C Flueger check the steel flagpole before the 15-man crew helped carry it up the top of the north trail.
  • Long wooden boards rested on each volunteer's shoulders as they carried the 600-pond hunk of steel up the north trail.
  • Volunteers move up the north trail on Barn Bluff carrying the 600-pound flagpole.
  • About 15 men showed up to transport the pole further up the bluff and secure it in its permanent location.
  • Volunteers carry the 600-pound, steel flagpole up the north trail of Barn Bluff Monday afternoon.
  • The city of Red Wing can be seen beyond Barn Bluff as volunteers carry the flagpole on the last leg of their trip.
  • Doug Wendlandt, the man behind the idea for a flag on the bluff, screws a topper on the flagpole before it's put into place.
  • It took a group of about 15 men to get the flagpole up the bluff and in place Monday, June 13. Thomas & Betts of Hager City donated the pole.
  • The volunteers gather to push up the steel flagpole.
  • Volunteers lower the 600-pound flagpole into a pre-dug hole on the crest of the hill.
  • A bugle sounded during Tuesday's Flag Day ceremony as a flag starts to fly on Barn Bluff.
  • Mary Koenig (front) stands with a crowd on the American Legion patio as she watches a flag being raised up Tuesday on Barn Bluff for the first time in 50 years.
  • Terry Nelson played a his 1951 bugle during Tuesday's Flag Day ceremony.
  • Veterans salute the American flag Tuesday afternoon shortly after it was raised up a 40-foot flagpole as part of a Flag Day ceremony atop Barn Bluff.