The Bay Area’s Estonian American community gathered at San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday to commemorate Estonian Independence Day with the raising of the country’s flag.
“Today, we raise Estonia’s flag above City Hall,” said San Francisco chief of protocol Penny Coulter in a speech. “We celebrate not only independence, but imagination, resilience and the courage to keep building what comes next.”
Christine Morgan, Estonia’s honorary consul general in San Francisco, was joined by members of the Estonian American community in the region as well as the San Francisco consul generals of Lithuania, Georgia and Cyprus in the mayor’s office…