January 30, 2009
A Brisk March Into History
Edwin Spinks set three alarms for 4 a.m. on Tuesday, January 20. Minutes later, he and the three other drum majors in the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's marching band left their hotel room in Linthicum, Md., in bright white uniforms and black knee-high boots, their 22-inch fur-and-feather hats in tow. Inauguration Day had arrived, and they were in the parade.
The 225-member marching band — known as the Marching Musical Machine of the Mid-South, or M4 —
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