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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    Groton hosts a Parade & Muster at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park

    Alumni of the Nutmeg Fife & Drums participate in the parade at the start of the Parade & Muster event at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    Amy Golden of Groton, left, helps her daughter, Rebecca Tsai, 9, a member of the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, get ready before the Parade & Muster at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    The Westbrook Drum Corps practice inside the fort before participating in the Parade & Muster at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    From left, Candy Guastamachio, of East Hartford, Tricia Dawson, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Cindy Fontaine, of Concord, Mass., of the Bluff Point Quahog Diggers Band, tune their fife’s before participating in the Parade & Muster at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    The Westbrook Drum Corps marches out of the fort while participating in the parade at the start of the Parade & Muster event at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    The Windsor Fife & Drum Corps participates in the parade at the start of the Parade & Muster event at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, hosted by the Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps, based in Groton. Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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    Groton ― The Nutmeg Fife & Drum Corps hosted a Parade & Muster Saturday at Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park. Eight fife & drum corps from around Connecticut participated in the event.

    Next year the group will mark its 75th anniversary and over the years have hosted 25 musters.

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