Good time memories of the Rhythmaires — a local swing band from the 1940s

by Kate Evans

The big band music of the 1930s and 1940s had people dancing to a lively mix of jazz and swing, made famous by musicians and bandleaders Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey.

Morgan County had its own version of a big band with the Rhythmaires, a late 1940s swing band that included several Paw Paw High School students, a couple of girls from Berkeley Springs…