Welcome to the Colorguard Historical Society - We are a social network of educators and keepers of the history of guard and welcome all of you to join, view, and post your personal marching / teaching history along with your own guard's contribution to this sport.

Colorguard Historical Society .org site is pretty easy to use, we suggest you create a profile and become friends with other profiles and join the groups that you march in and the groups that you love.

Please create a profile as an individual NOT as a guard name - we have set up groups for many guards - let us know if your team is not listed!
Any questions... just ask!

Of course, you don't need to be a member in order to watch videos and view pictures but we would like if you joined and be a voice. We encourage our members to post videos, however, we do prefer you to use third party sites, such as YouTube, Google, AOL, etc. as we are under limited bandwidth and this allows more video history. Please keep in mind that you are responsible for your uploaded content to those sites and we will not be responsible for copyright infringement. Pictures and videos and show music that is yours is very much encouraged - if any one needs help in digitizing old movies or vhs - drop us a note. To upload a video, find the 'embed' code from your video and apply that code to the designated spot after clicking 'add video'. Pictures, weblinks and gallery links are also most welcome - we suggest FlickR picture slide shows. Please drop us a note if you are in need any further help.

Education through printed words, pictures and videos and ALL under one resource!
We all have a voice... lets have some fun with history !!


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The CGHS is a long term, passionate project about the real beginnings of Colorguard and Winterguard groups, its' innovators, early competitions, real stories from real people from around the country that championed this art form. We are sponsored by RIFLEBEAR.com ...where we design unique colorguard & marching fanwear !! April, 2007 - It all began after attending WGI 2007 for the first time in over 20 years, Tony Jenners had a vision of creating a private website for himself and close friends devoted to everything colorguard & drum corps after seeing so many of his buds still active in the sport. It was shortly after sharing his idea he realized the vision was too special to keep private and began a design company for drum corps, guards and bands. Asking his friends Patrick Vicari and TJ Romano to join up with him and help create, produce and market Riflebear Designs. One of the first designs was a "what year did you march?" t-shirt promotion giving access to everyone to declare their marching history, an idea was born! Patrick continued in this vein and began designing a 'classics' collection which after months of diligent work, it was decided to change direction and go another route with our designs and focus on guards of the past.. It was from this point that we charted this new project. After many nights of brainstorming and discussing history and classics, Patrick`s concept of a ``Colorguard Historical Society`` along with Tony`s vast knowledge of history & website design lead us to the creation of a unique website... introducing it as... The Colorguard Historical Society. 

A unique website and the first of its kind to compile and collect history, stories, individual photos and videos of the great guards that paved the way of this unique sport. A place for old-timers (aka:"Old School") and newbies (aka:"New School") to come together, share, talk and learn together. We began the group in Facebook to a wonderful response and provide this website as a way to further connect with our non-Facebook friends. We have taken the added route of setting up the Drum Corps Historical Society. Please remember these are long term projects and in time the history unfolds. This is a place of fun facts and maybe not so fun truths...... and is a project created from passion of this unique sport. One of the first ideas was to list the now defunct guards with utmost respect and honor! The "Guard Pages" are up and running so now it`s up to us to add our colorguard/winterguard history, music, photos( Use AOL Pictures, Photobucket or Flickr ) and free to embed 3rd party videos of guards. Enjoy our website and feel free to get involved in the NING network. Thanks Tony and Patrick Team Riflebear

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