Festival Five sees continued growth, and ripe berries appearing on each flourishing vine. There's theater and dance inside the Castle Inn, Saturday night after the main stage music. The Fred Waring Award is presented in 1982 in honor of the memory of Edward Joubert, who helped imagine COTA into being, one night late at the bar in the Deer Head.

He will be getting dark, soon,
And loom through new snow.
I know his ghost will drift home
To the Ohio River, and sit down, alone,
Whittling a root.
He will say nothing.
The waters flow past, older, younger
Than he is, or I am.
These lines are from James Wright's "Youth," written in memory of his father.