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| Zora Neale Hurston |
From the Orlando Sentinel (Florida), about the three-day festival in honor of the late libertarian Republican anthropologist and author: "On a typical day, Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville is a busy thoroughfare, jammed with cars, trucks and buses. But on Friday, hundreds of kids filled the boulevard, which was closed for the first day of the ZORA! street festival. It was Education Day at the festival honoring the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston, who grew up in Eatonville and later wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' The 23rd annual event continues from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 to 5 Sunday with exhibits, art and music for all ages."
More: "Joyce Davis of Sanford, who has attended the festival for several years, said she was thrilled to see so many students at the event to learn about Hurston and the history of Eatonville. One of the best parts of the annual event is 'just seeing these high school kids getting educated in Zora,' she said. Although some teens stuck to the main thoroughfare to admire the goods set out by dozens of vendors, others took an interest in some of the festival's arts and historical programming."
