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So Long, It's Been Good to Know You: A Rememberance of Festival Director Ralph Rinzler

So sang a Bahamian chorus on the National Mall at a wake held for Ralph a day after his passing on the second day of the 1994 Festival. It seems so incongruous to those who knew Ralph Rinzler to imagine him lying down and resting. If there are festivals in heaven, one can only imagine that Ralph is organizing them.

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