A piece of history is now displayed on the front yard of the Pilon family home on West Avenue thanks to the Hilton Cadet Marching Band. Last summer, during the family’s home renovation project, a carriage house that was over 100 years old was torn down. At the same time, the Marching Band was in the beginning stages of developing its fall 2014 competitive field show, “1776: Revolution & Triumph!”
“My staff, parent helpers and I came up with the idea of using colonial era, frontier-style fences as props in our show,” said Matthew Nordhausen, Marching Band director. “It was at that time that several of our parents suggested using the wood from the Pilon’s carriage house. And the family was more than happy to donate the wood to the marching band.”
With their fall competitive field show season complete, the band decided it would be a nice gesture to offer one of the fences back to the Pilon family for their landscaping so they could still have part of the carriage house on their property.
On November 26, Nordhausen, Don Green and Doug Wall, the two parents who made the fences, and drum majors Ellie Steinmetz and Josh Mooney presented the fence, along with a framed picture of the fences being used in one of their competitions and a thank you letter to the Pilon family.
“I see the stockades and I feel like the family is part of the band now,” said Carl Pilon.
The Pilon Family recently made a video to thank everyone who worked on the renovation project for their home. It can be seen athttp://youtu.be/jnBKUBlm00s.
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