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Foreword Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.........................................................................xi Acknowledgments Mark Clague..........................................................................xv INTRODUCTION: THE SOUL OF ALTON ADAMS Mark Clague....................................................1 THE MEMOIRS OF ALTON AUGUSTUS ADAMS, SR., 1889-1987 1. A HISTORICAL MEMOIR................................................................................21 2. THE ST. THOMAS CRAFTSMEN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.................................................30 3. THE VALUE OF EDUCATION.............................................................................47 4. MUSIC IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE ADAMS JUVENILE BAND (1910).....................61 5. THE UNITED STATES NAVY BAND OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS (1917-1923)......................................86 6. THE NAVY BAND'S 1924 UNITED STATES TOUR............................................................123 7. THE CLOSE OF THE NAVAL YEARS (1925-1931)..................... ... read full excerpt from The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy ebook