Former Cornwall resident and 1973 graduate of Cornwall Central High School Stephen Bennett recently won the international Finger Style Guitar Championship. The event is part of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Bennett (whose mom, Judith, was a reporter for The Cornwall Local back in the 1970s, and his dad, David, was pastor of the Cornwall Methodist Church from 1963-1970) now lives in West Cornwall, Conn. His stepmother, Patricia Bennett, is a resident of Cornwall-on-Hudson. Bennett also won the National Flatpicking Championship, a different category of guitar-playing, in 1987, noting this week he’s the only person in the festival’s 52-year history to have won both of those categories.