Road Report #7: Arrival at destination

Road Report #7: Arrival at destination

The three trucks carrying band equipment, instruments, uniforms and luggage across the country through snow and a seemingly neverending stretch of highway through Texas arrived late Tuesday, Dec. 28, at the Hyatt in Anaheim, Calif., after three long days of driving....

Slideshow: Watch the band grow from 1942 to today

See in 10 photos and scanned-in images how the band has evolved from a small group in 1942 to a nearly 400-member band marching Jan. 1 in the Rose Parade. Click here to read about how the band’s innovations over the years earned recognition with the 2009 Sudler...
Slideshow: Band hits the highway

Slideshow: Band hits the highway

Mark Haskett, Western Carolina University photographer, and Jarrett Frazier, WCU student, took photos on Sunday, Dec. 19, as the band practiced marching on a stretch of highway near campus – N.C. 107 – to prepare for the Rose Parade on Jan. 1. Spectators,...

Cullowhee area native photographs Sunday rehearsal

Pam Morgan, a librarian at the University of Alabama , was among the WCU supporters who gathered on the pedestrian bridge over Highway 107 near campus to watch the band hit the highway Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010, in preparation for the Rose Parade. Morgan grew up in the...