Homecoming Football

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I tried to shoot the Marysville High School football game last Friday. Not much success - I have never photographed this sport and I haven't been to a football game in at least 25 years. The top CDP football shooter, Olivier, has the field to himself.

Still, it was fun. The school crowned a homecoming king and queen. His majesty looks a little ill at ease. The bottom picture looks like the aftermath of an anthrax attack on the marching band.

Marysville, Kansas, Fifty Years On

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Out on the prairie in Marysville, Kansas, there is a celebration this weekend for the high school class of 1962. I shot the homecoming parade and pep rally in the afternoon. In the evening the better part of the town turned out for a program in the city park. Then everyone went across the street for the big homecoming football game.

More than a third of Carolyn's class showed up, which is pretty good after five decades. The home town heroes were getting creamed 28 - 0 at half time so all us geezers repaired to the Wagon Wheel Cafe to knock down a few drinks and talk about old times. The spouses talked about, well, whatever. I took pictures.

Lots more to come.