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.

For the second year in a row, on my way to the press box to announce the “Pride of Tallassee” band at halftime, I have destroyed my pants on a broken fence on the home side of Eagles Stadium in Tuskegee.  The fact that it happened once is bad enough, but now it has happened twice.