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In a college marching band more than 18 years ago, a drum major and a clarinetist met and have been tied together by music ever since.

Kevin and Cheryl Lines have been married 18 years, have two children and both teach music in Marshall, Missouri schools. Kevin is an assistant to the band director and teaches the string orchestra at Marshall High School, along with also teaching string orchestra and general music at Bueker Middle School. Cheryl teaches choir and general music at Bueker next door to Kevin, allowing them to see eachh other often, just a door away.

The two are also members of their church choir, the Marshall Philharmonic (with Kevin conducting on occasion) and the city band. Kevin plays the trombone and Cheryl plays the clarinet.

Their children have both inherited their parent's love of music. Dalton, 10, and Charlotte, 6, both play piano and Dalton will likely play in the strings orchestra when he starts middle school. The two each took second place for their respective age groups this year at the state fair.

Instruments and sheet music are as much a part of the household as footballs and jerseys are in others.

It's not the life of rock stars, but for the Lines family, they would't have it any other way. As Cheryl says, "My family is the reason I do music."

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History of the Missouri Photo Workshop

The roots of the Missouri Photo Workshop are embedded firmly in a half-century of rich tradition; current workshops carry on principals present from the beginning.

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When the late Clifton C. Edom of the Missouri School of Journalism founded the Missouri Photo Workshop in 1949, he too, looked to the past to map the path for photojournalism's future. Inspired by the gritty, content-rich photographs of the documentary photo unit of the pre-WWII Farm Security Administration, Edom promoted research, observation and timing as the methods to make strong story-telling photographs. FSA director Roy Stryker and photographer Russell Lee worked closely with Edom in the creation of the Workshop and served as faculty members during its early years.

In subsequent years, faculty members have been many of America’s leading newspaper and magazine photographers and photo editors; a roster of faculty and students reads like a Who’s Who of photojournalism. Faculty of today includes some of the most energetic, productive and articulate documentarians currently working. All are experts dedicated to passing on the fundamentals of photo research, shooting and editing to those who hope to carry on these values and techniques in the future.

The workshop still follows Cliff Edom's credo:

"Show truth with a camera. Ideally truth is a matter of personal integrity. In no circumstances will a posed or fake photograph be tolerated."

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