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You'd think that after the enormous success of the first three folk festivals in Bangor, we'd be over that sense of giddy disbelief by the time the fourth one rolled around.
Yet as we longtime residents strolled through the crowds during the past weekend's American Folk Festival, the seasonal transformation of our humble little city and its beautifully restored riverfront park seemed nearly as magical as it had when the first National Folk Festival pitched its tents in Bangor in 2002. We could hardly recognize the old place back then, and the extraordinarily vibrant look and feel of this latest celebration still had the power to make many of us do a double-take.See the full content of this document
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Riverfront Revived by Folk Festival
We haven't forgotten, after all, that an event of this magnitude could never have happened in Bangor several years ago. We were not nearly...
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