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Mountainair's Annual Sunflower Festival

Wed. 8/21 10a:  The Manzano Mountain Art Council welcomes the late summer return of the sunflower with an arts and crafts show, food vendors, musical entertainment, kids' activities, and a sunflower hat contest, August 24 in the town of Mountainair, in the mountains south and east of Albuquerque.  Spencer Beckwith talks with the President of the Manzano Mountain Art Council's Board of Directors, Kent Potter.

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.