The Star-Spangled Banner

It is, finally, the 200th birthday of the Star-Spangled Banner. Big doings in Baltimore, of course.

There were no respondents to our challenge to ascertain the connection, if any, between Francis Scott Key and musicologist Susan Key. Offer ended.

Still, we enjoyed covering the story:

• To Be or Not: Is “The Star-Spangled Banner” Really Based on an Old English Drinking Song?, by Mark Clague, 30 January 2014
• Dear Abbé, 2 March 2014 with challenge
• July 4 [2014]