Former Miss America remembers heritage

Posted 4/12/04

When Marian McKnight Conway was asked to be the first grand marshal of the Striped Bass Festival Parade in 1980, she happily agreed.

A Clarendon County native and Miss America 1957, she always enjoyed coming back to Manning to see family and old …

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