Band Day parade 1989, Epping Buffalo Trails Band, Williston, N.D.

A view of the members of the Epping Buffalo Trails band passing spectators outside the Century 21 real estate office and Simonson Station in Williston in the Band Day parade. An insurance company sign is visible on the same building as the Century 21 building, but the name of the company cannot be made out. A man in a frontier costume leads the band, followed by someone bearing a banner with the band's name.
Film negatives
35 mm film
"Band Day 1989 Gloria w/guitar Chief Atol on Cycle Zahl - Buffalo Float Tioga Band Norse Float Ft Union marchers"--Handwritten on envelope containing negatives
Title created by staff.
William E. "Bill" Shemorry was a native of Williston, N.D. who began work in the newspaper industry as a newsboy selling the Williston Herald and the Williams County Farmers Press. In 1953, he started to publish the Williston Plains Reporter, which he operated for 25 years before selling to the Williston Herald. Shemorry then began to concentrate on his own writing and photography. In addition to writing many books on the history of Williams County, he also collected photographs of early North Dakota photographers. Shemorry was an active member of the Williston Fire Department, was Civil Defense Chief of Williams County for three years in the 1950's, and was a combat photographer in World War II. Shemorry's photograph of the discovery of oil in North Dakota on April 4, 1951 at the Clarence Iverson No. 1 is one of the most famous oil photographs ever taken, and was published in many national publications.