yesterday's tennessee

First Parsons School Band, circa 1948

from the photograph collection of B. R. Jennings

This band was composed of a group of students from Parsons who took private lessons from Ms. Gussie Tate from Decaturville.  Ms. Tate taught from Jenkins's Beginners Band Book.  The band was not a school sponsored group but they did play at school functions.  It was a precursor to Parsons school bands that developed in later years.