“It’s like putting the Eiffel Tower in the Maine wilderness,” one concerned resident said.
A plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole — higher than the Empire State Building — to hoist an American flag larger than a football in the Maine wilderness has divided a small town close to its proposed site.
The project has also faced backlash at a time when the American flag itself has become so politicized. There are plans for a 4,000-seat auditorium, restaurants and a monument wall with the names of every dead soldier dating back to the Revolutionary War — about 24 million names. “Most people were, let’s say, shocked to see that it was that large,” says Jeff Greene, a contractor and one of three members of the town’s Select Board.
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