Boom

This event didn't go as planned, to say the least. We were supposed to be covering a drumline competition, but the groups all got there so late, they just skipped that part. It was a true tragedy, since the drumlines have so much attitude all their own outside of the marching band. You've never seen quite so much dancing at a band competition. Some of the groups had a color guard, a dance team and (get this) majorettes - a group I thought died off in the '70s when my mother cast aside her white boots. It has been resurrected in style by the predominantly African-American high schools of the South.