link to the Heritage Room web site

Although it may be true that history is written by the victors, it is also written by historians who assemble it from remnants and ruins of the cultures. I request anyone with information or materials that could help enhance our Classic City Band history to share with our website, and, when the appropriate time comes, to donate the memorabilia to the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library.

This history page uses a variation of our previous classic Greek leitmotif; now the story of the ruin of the Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles:
The Parthenon had poorly survived the centuries since it's construction. It had been damaged in war, at the hands of religious sponsorship, and by looting, recycling, vandals, souvenir-hunters and the corrosive effects of the environment. After obtaining permission from the ruling Ottoman Turk Sultan, British ambassador Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, had removed about half of the surviving sculpture between 1801 and 1812, and eventually sold it [at a loss] to the British Government. It is now displayed in the British Museum, despite calls for it's return to Greece. In 2007 AD, Greece finally started to move sculptures at the Parthenon site into a museum to protect them from further environmental degradation. Plaster casts, taken of those marble sculptures that Bruce did not have removed from the Parthenon, now show much more detail than the actual sculpture left at the site after only 200 additional years of exposure to the environment around Athens, Greece. see more of the story

Classic City Band history material courtesy of:
• The Heritage Room, Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens, GA
• Jill Read
• Jim Heyl
• Beth Baile
  And the flame still burns ...