Tag: Marching band

A retro Christmas tree with popcorn, gingerbread men, colored balls, and a gold star on top, surrounded by beat up marching-band instruments -- bass drum, tuba, snare, trumpet, flute, clarinet, and a couple tarnished cymbals – sit on ugly blue-green shag carpeting with wood paneling behind. By Alabaster Rhumb.

A Country Christmas * Fiction * David P. Stewart

aromatica poetica December 22, 2021

Businesses in Canton shuttered early on fall Fridays as the high school drum major marched a mile of black and gold uniformed musicians round the Courthouse Square. The proud city folks followed the band in a joyful procession to Ben Roberts Stadium. Even hard workin farmin families finished their laborin ways before the sun went down so they could make their way to the famed field. The mighty Canton Panthers were consistent champions in the Choctaw Conference. Daddy mostly told …

Fourth of July marching band with the author, Liz Charlotte Grant, front and center , wearing a half-smile and high ponytail.

“Chlorinated” * Personal Essay * Liz Charlotte Grant

aromatica poetica July 1, 2019

I. Chlorine (KLOHR-een): Cl on the table of elements, in the halogen family; extremely reactive, strips color from whatever it touches, heavier than air; discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 when he poured hydrochloric acid over pyrolusite (which resembles a lava rock) and, surprise, a yellow-green gas smoke evaporated, filling Scheele’s nostrils with the bright-white smell of bleach. Chlorine was put to use in the cleaning industry for deodorizing and disinfecting; also used to clean human wounds. Then it …