The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening. Temperatures here in Daphne, Ala., had climbed past 90 degrees, and the humidity made it feel at least 10 degrees hotter. Yet even as a record-breaking heat wave seared most of the American South this week, the members of the Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps chose to push on, not wanting to miss a moment of the intensive camp they had been waiting all year for. “The heat has gotten me once or twice this season,” said Gracie Binns, an 18-year-old member of the color guard. “It’s kind of worn me down already.” But, she added, “I like the challenge of it.”

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Persons: ”, Gracie Binns, “ Organizations: Bugle Corps Locations: Daphne, Ala, American