The Vintage Twirler preserves and shares the history, culture, traditions, and legacy of baton twirling and majorette performance through education, storytelling, archival preservation, and advocacy.
Please join the Baton Twirling Preservation Society.
The Vintage Twirler preserves and shares the history, culture, traditions, and legacy of baton twirling and majorette performance through education, storytelling, archival preservation, and advocacy.
Join the Baton Twirling Preservation Society.
Share Your Stories and Pictures
Support and celebrate the rich history and heritage of baton twirling through the collection, preservation and online display of historic materials. Help add to the historical record of a sport grossly underreported by mainstream media.
Unfortunately, lost in the mists of time are stories and pictures. Without ever being interviewed, baton twirling heroes and legends pass away. Lost forever are the viewpoints, perspectives and even eyewitness accounts that shape the historical record. As such, the documented history of twirling becomes limited or inaccessible and priceless photos and ephemera are lost, stolen, trashed and/or destroyed, etc.
See Collections
We are building an archive of baton twirling images and stories from the 20th Century. ollections featured on this site are only partially complete. Those with red stars have content.
Posts Memorials and Tributes
Memorials are for the dearly departed. Tributes honor the living. We invite you to publish a free memorial or tribute honoring someone who has impacted your journey in the sport of twirling.
Thank you for allowing the legacies of those who have gone before us live online and inspire others to give selflessly to this sport.
Thank You
Thank you for helping preserve the history of baton twirling. We are preserving photographs to understand what our lives have meant and sharing your stories to gain a deeper understanding of experiences.
We invite you to share your stories and pictures with us. No story is too small, no photo too grainy.
Top Photo: Bettye Lou Sorrells (1936-2022) leads the Gilmer Buckeye Band down Buffalo Street, Gilmer, Texas, 1953. Photo Credit: Growing Up Gilmer
Most Recent Posts
Old Forge’s First Miss Devilette Has Passed Away
Maryann Beseda Brigido, the original "Miss Devilette" of Old Forge High School, Pennsylvani, has passed away at the age of 87. Her death marks the loss of the first performer to hold a title that has come to define Friday night halftime shows in the small Lackawanna...
July Vintage Twirler of the Month
As America begins celebrating its 250th anniversary, the Baton Twirling Preservation Society is proud to announce Nancy Rollings Stewart of Gadsden, Alabama, as the inaugural Vintage Twirler of the Month for July 2026. The selection could not be more fitting. A member...
The Diamondettes of Sequoyah School: Ramona Daniels and a Native School Spirit Tradition
Sequoyah Schools Diamondettes dance-twirl team, circa 1971Sequoyah’s legendary DiamondettesThe Diamondettes were the dance twirl team of Sequoyah Schools during the 1960s and 1970s, when the school operated as a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school serving Native...
Vintage Ephemera
Baton twirling ephemera refers to things like programs, posters, patches, stickers, magazines, newsletters, and other things typically written or printed that were used for a specific period of time.
Submit History
We welcome high-quality scans of your vintage baton twirling ephemera. You can also receive items through the mail. We’ll digitally preserve your memories in high-quality scans. Thank you so much for supporting this project.
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