Contributed photo/Malcolm Knox
Sam Parlin, at left with baton, organized and directed many boys’ bands in Caribou in the past years. One of these groups later became the Caribou High School band and is shown here in Boston Harbor after it traveled to the Massachusetts city by the Boston Boat out of Bangor. The musicians went to Boston to play at the New England Music Convention. One of its members recalled that many bands from New England assembled on the Boston Commons, then marched all the way to Boston Arena. The aggregate New England bands were led there by John Philip Sousa as they played his “Washington Post March.” The year was probably 1927. Pictured in the front row, from left, are: Bandmaster Sam Parlin, Dale Currier, Ronald McLean, Vernon Johnston, Nathan Wark, Powers Peterson and Freemont Small. Second row: Moses Heney, Kermit St. Peter, Graydon Lombard, Sheldon Boone, Maynard Lombard, Jack Denton, Clayton Hardison, Wilmer Todd, Claude Lombard, Lloyd Allen, Merton Allen, Arthur Todd, Lewis Hardison and Ralph Woods. Third row: Cy Small, Louis Mills, Phil Bouchard, Sterling Nelson, Chet Ringdahl, Stanley Johnson, Malcolm Knox and Nathan Currier. Cy Small and Nathan Currier were chaperones.
