The town flag: designed 1976, and the whole of its course

Town Code §11.01(G), verbatim; Flags of the World, entry us-inros (contribution of Ethan Dubrow, 21 June 2024), read whole

The flag's record opens in the town's own code, in one sentence that gives the design, the designers, and the makers. Town Code §11.01(G) states, verbatim: "In September, 1976, a flag was designed by Dennis St. Germain and Ella Riffel and produced on white polyester gabardine by Mrs. George Eisbrenner and her daughter, Sally." A Bicentennial-year act: two residents designed it, two more sewed it, and the town carried its making in its own code from then on. What the design is, the record carries through the flag's vexillological file: the Flags of the World entry for Roseland (contributed 21 June 2024, from a photograph) describes a white field; "a blue circle with a yellow aura"; over it "a yellow-green silhouette of Indiana"; over that "a pink rose with three leaves by its neck"; beneath the circle the word "Roseland"; inside the silhouette the year "1916"; and "a black star on the silhouette's northern border" — the rose for the town's name, the year for its incorporation, the star for its place in the state. The same entry dates the flag's public record: "The flag was reported in the South Bend Tribune in October 2002 and would have been then or earlier."

The course carries one seam, printed whole. A second rendering of the same 2024 contribution, on the flags mailing list, phrases the dating: "The flag was most likely created in 2002, but may have been earlier." Against the Code's September 1976 design date, that phrasing is a conflict, and it registers as conflict C65, printed whole's note. The disposition the record supports: the Code — the town's own instrument, carrying named designers and makers — governs the design date; 2002 is the first located press and vexillological record of the flag, not a date any carrier establishes for its creation. The flag's file history corroborates the lateness of its outside record: the Flags of the World site listed Roseland in 2022 as a place with no flag information, superseded by the 2024 entry; and the flag's located image carrier stands in this build's image register (RL-IMG-7, terms-check, nothing pulled). No later flag act — no amendment, replacement, or retirement — was found in any class searched. The course therefore stands: designed and sewn in 1976, carried in the Code, first pictured to the outside world in 2002, rendered for the vexillological record in 2024.