Its location means that festival visitors and townspeople rub shoulders with the artists and performers .

After over four months of siege and bombardment by Moorish catapults , the garrison and townspeople were reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to near-starvation and surrendered Surrendering to Abd al-Malik .

The townspeople of Machias disapproved Agree_or_refuse_to_act of Jones ' intentions and arrested Arrest him .

The townspeople seized Hold one of Jones ' ships Sending , armed it alongside a second local ship , and sailed Self_motion out to meet Moore .