Posted By Saruman on Tuesday, November 19 2002

Subject: Mothman Festival Draws Crowds

Leaders of this Mason County town's quiet business district liked this weekend's initial Mothman Festival just fine. Still, they'd prefer another sighting or two of the mythical winged beast itself.

A few hundred visitors walked through a vacant downtown furniture building to see 1960s newspaper clips with witness descriptions of the creature, along with memorabilia from this summer's ''The Mothman Prophecies,'' a movie starring Richard Gere.

''This is the first time in a while that people have been out and about on Main Street mingling around,'' said Carolin Harris, a festival organizer and owner of Harris' Steak House. ''Mothman has been good for us all the way,'' she said. ''It's been great for tourism."

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