Janine Marnien
The local band The Elderly Brothers warmed up as people milled
around Kenneth Village.
Tables filled the center of Kenneth Road, and neighborhood
merchants sat at tables outside their stores, displaying their wares
and chatting with each other and passersby.
Michael McNerney tried to convince his wife to get a henna tattoo
at the display set up by Yoga at the Village.
"She wasn't going for it though," he said.
About 100 people filtered in and out of the village in the early
part of Friday evening, during the second annual Midsummer's Night at
the Village sponsored by the Kenneth Village Merchants' Assn.
"It's just an evening for people to come down and stroll around,
look at the different shops and listen to music," said Susan Stanton,
president of the association.
Last year's event drew about 1,000 people, Stanton said, and
merchants were hopeful the same would be true Friday.
"A lot of people have asked us to do this every Friday night," she
said.
Joan Main and her husband received a flier in the mail from the
association advertising the event, and stopped by Friday night out of
"curiosity."
"It's a nice evening," she said. "It's enjoyable to see people, go
through the stores and see what they have to offer."
