Racine's Horlick Athletic Field:: Drums Along the Foundries (Landmarks)

. Steve Vickers has been intimately involved with drum and bugle corps activity for over fifty years, first as a marching member of the Hutchinson, Kansas Sky Ryders and, for the last forty years, as publisher of Drum Corps World. A member of the Racine Scouts and the Boys of '76, his other drum and bugle corps credent

Like going home again Pamela Kissinger This was a trip down memory lane for me. I grew up in Racine & went to many events at Horlick Field.Thanks for the review. This is one book I will be reading again and again.

About the Author Alan Karls is a fourth-generation Racine native and was often in Horlick Athletic Field for high school football games, drum and bugle corps shows and semi-professional football games. John Dickert has been mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, since 2009. A member of the Racine Scouts and the Boys of '76, his other drum and bugle corps credentials include instructor, judge and journalist. Steve Vickers has been intimately involved with drum and bugle corps activity for over fifty years, first as a marching member of the Hutchinson, Kansas Sky Ryders and, for the last forty years, as publisher of Drum Corps World.

Launched in 1919 by William Horlick, the inventor of malted milk, Horlick Athletic Field has hosted two NFL teams, the Racine Belles professional women's baseball team (immortalized in A League of Their Own)" and thousands of semiprofessional- and industrial-league games. But it is the drum and bugle corps shows that have made the stadium one of the most iconic landmarks in its corner of the state. From an archive of fond recollection and painstaking record, Alan Karls has pieced together a history of Horlick Athletic Field that justifies the reverence that drum and bugle corps have felt for the place for almost a century."