Speaker: Jeremy Prescott (The Miracle Flower)
Mon, Jan 25th 2021 at 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jeremy will be telling us the story of the Poppy and how it has become the symbol of remembrance for those killed in conflict. For more information go to : www.sacrificeandremembrance.com
The story of the Poppy and how it has become the symbol of remembrance for those killed in conflict. From John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” to Moina Michael and Anna Guerin’s involvement in promoting the poppy in America and France and Major George Howson’s establishment of the Poppy Factory in Richmond, the way in which the opium poppy influenced the conduct of the recent war in Afghanistan, and the iconic poppy display “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red“ in 2014 at the Tower of London.
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