Uncle Rick Reads Betsy Ross

Young America needed a flag.  General Washington took his problem to young Betsy Ross of Philadelphia.  The young wife was an expert seamstress and a bold patriot.  Though she was of Quaker stock and hated war when war became a reality she wholeheartedly threw herself into the patriot cause.  Betsy’s life was an exciting one, full of triumph and tragedy.  Here is a powerful true story of the turbulent days that gave birth to America.