As my 28-year teaching career comes to a conclusion this year, I am revisiting some columns that ran in this space over the past 20 years that told stories from our music department at Tallassee High School. This is one of the most-requested tales from the road. This originally appeared in The Tallassee Tribune in 2008.
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