First Person: Remembering Folk'nA musician Mac Cole
First Person: Remembering Folk’nA musician Mac Cole Joe Fusco Jr. We lost my good friend Mac Cole Sunday. I hadn’t seen him since COVID-19 hit, but we still talked on the phone occasionally. He was "unique." Mac and I were part of the original Folk’nA crew that populated Mike Duffy’s open mike at Gilrein’s on Main Street. It was an eclectic bunch: musicians, poets, puppeteers, inflatable instruments, and even a left-handed guitar player. At the end of the open mike, Duffy would raffle off discards that the crowd would donate: scratched lottery tickets, unwound cassettes, the third ...