Editor's Log

Big band coming!

The 95-piece U.S. Army Field Band, with chorus, will make its first-ever appearance in Parkersburg on Oct. 13.

The band is so large and needs such a large performance area that no stage in the county could accommodate it, not any of the school stages or even Smoot Theatre.

So, this morning, amid all the preparations for ESPN's visit to the PHS Stadium for its taping of a segment on Parkersburg being nominated as TitleTown USA, I meet with Sgt. Maj. Darrin Blume and SFC John Luke, field band tour coordinators, to look over the PHS Fieldhouse as a possible site for the performance.

Contracts were signed with the school and a written agreement was made with the Field Band to have it put on a 7 p.m. concert at the fieldhouse.

There will be some opportunities for local high school musicians and for audience involvement with the band commander and conductor, Col. Thomas H. Palmatier, before the performance, but more on all that later when tickets for the concert are made available through The News and Sentinel.

There was one funny part of my meeting with the tour coordinators. They telephoned my cell phone a few minutes before we were to meet at PHS to apologize for being late and ask for directions, telling me their GPS directions for Parkersburg had them nearing signs saying Ravenswood and their vehicle as being off the road. They quickly answered me, saying their GPS system wasn't the same one our military forces use in Iraq; theirs was from a travel service.

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