Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME, December 26th, 2003
The National Folk Festival, according to recent rough figures from Eastern Maine Development Corp., helps the Bangor area by $3.7 million a year, a useful calculation as the city prepares to serve as host of the event for the final year. But the dollar figure is no more important than one of the numbers that went into figuring it.
Attendance for the first two years of the festival has been approximately 80,000 and 110,000 respectively, with most people coming from outside the Bangor region. The $3.7 million suggests that, under the right conditions, the city can afford to continue holding a m...
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