Founder of Kutztown Folk Festival vanished in mid-1960s, but his legacy lives on

Full story: Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Alfred L. Shoemaker, visionary co-founder of the first Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, was perhaps the most important force in the post-World War II revival of Pennsylvania Dutch culture, but his fate is a mystery.

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