Article: And the band played on ...

New history follows New Holland Band for 150 years

Jo-Ann Greene

Writing a new history of the New Holland Band, William H. Rehrig delicately refers to certain periods in its past as "interludes."

He's not talking about musical interludes. These were silent interludes, when the members disbanded and their instruments sat idle.

"Any other town, that first termination would have been the death knell of the band,'' Rehrig said by phone from his home in Joppa, Md. Lancaster County, which had about 100 town bands in the 1870s, has only a couple remaining, he pointed out.

Happily, though, the New Holland Band kept coming back for "encores."

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