Sousa's Band (and us!) at Longwood

My wife and I become members of Longwood Gardens this year, enabling us to enjoy its vast beauty throughout the next 12 months. Here is Kim, along with my son and mother-in-law, down toward the Italian gardens this past week:

What was fun to discover is that there is a bit of history for Sousa and his Band at this wonderful place. While it was long after Herman Conrad, Sousa's first star bass player, had left the band, I thought I'd post about it anyway. Here's the brief mention of the Sousa connection in the museum on the grounds:

And here are a few more shots of the grounds, as they looked this past week:

(That's me on the left)