Five Things to Know About "The Star-Spangled Banner"-- Part 1: Amateur Poet

From the September 10, 2014, Daily herald by Juliet Linderman.

1.  What does it have to do with Baltimore?  The Battle of Baltimore

2.  Francis Scott Out-of-Key.  Key was only an amateur poet and probably tone deaf and described by his family as non-musical.

3.  200th Anniversary.  The city was commemorating the 200th anniversary of the September 11, 1814, attack.

--Brock-Perry