Feb
22
Bully for Presidential Visits
Theodore Roosevelt has been on my brain lately.
It started a week ago Monday (Feb. 13) at the Northfield High School band concert, when the symphonic band played Karl King’s “Rough Riders.” According to the concert notes (written by our friend Joseph), the piece is “perhaps a double reference to the nickname given the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment commanded by Col. Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War and the portrayal of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the popular Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World touring shows.”
A few days later, we saw Teddy in action, digging locks in the Panama Canal and crying “Bully” before charging up San Juan Hill.
It started a week ago Monday (Feb. 13) at the Northfield High School band concert, when the symphonic band played Karl King’s “Rough Riders.” According to the concert notes (written by our friend Joseph), the piece is “perhaps a double reference to the nickname given the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment commanded by Col. Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War and the portrayal of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the popular Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World touring shows.”
A few days later, we saw Teddy in action, digging locks in the Panama Canal and crying “Bully” before charging up San Juan Hill.