To attach the state’s most important symbols to commercial products might be lucrative. However, the law is clear: As close to sacred as any symbols in Vermont’s culture, neither the seal nor ...

There was a problem with the state flag. “The present one,” one journalist wrote in March of 1923, “is practically the United States flag with the Vermont coat of arms inserted in the blue field,” the ...

Symbols may show how the state's residents have a good time. Several states, like Oklahoma and Utah, for example, have an official folk dance (for both states, it's the square dance).