An Early Heat Wave Upsets the Rhythm of Life in the South
The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening. As the sun blistered the parking lot, rows of trumpet, tuba and mellophone players marched back and forth, wiping sweat from their foreheads at the end of each passage of music. Temperatures here in Daphne, Ala.,…