Column: Diverse cultures to gather for 47th Annual International Folk Festival
The 47th International Folk Festival kicks off on Saturday with the Parade of Nations.
Column: A woman of elegance and grace, and the wind beneath a husband’s wings
Shirley Vnensak was the attractive New Jersey girl from the mountains of Montville with the classy way all her own; one look, and John Malzone was smitten.
Dynamo develops downtown
It was a parade by definition. But all the pomp and circumstance, all the bells and whistles and frills one might expect from a Christmas procession were conspicuously absent from the 1971 promenade through the streets of Fayetteville. John Malzone, a self-described Yankee who’d moved to the South only a few years before, took notice. …

