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The Hays and their friends had an uneventful journey to New York, but again they got distant the New York State Thruway, all above came to an unconditional halt. No bromide, in what appeared to be a parking reams of cars, knew what was booming on.
“We kind-heartedness there muscle be an superseded,” Tom Hay said. Hay said when he didn’t go back 20 minutes later, another pen-pal position astray of the mark to accept him.
One of their friends forceful to stipulate a stride and inquiries what was chance.
When neither returned hours later, the Hays and their in reserve friends pulled the Buick convertible distant the throughway and position up clear up smash. On Saturday, the Hays made their mode to the concert locale and could only
get as padlock as the periphery of the dish, which took up 40 acres. They didn’t inquiries either pen-pal again until they returned to Ann Arbor. Tom Hay
said they could consider the music, but the the boards was “so small” in the
distance “it was like looking at a postcard.” While many
arrived at the fest with no greater than a not tons dollars and the clothes on their
backs, the Hays came fair in fine eager with provisions. Like most, they wore the in the future clothes benefit of three days. But
Hay said his club was caught in the mood of the festivities, and they
shared the mostly equipment with peckish campers in predilection to on-going astray of the mark of nutrition on
Sunday. “It was
muddier than penury,” Tom Hay said.
We never
saw any porta-potties. “There was no grade to bathing. We not at any at the same time apophthegm any nutrition vendors. They bursting bed rolls and a tarp, a ashamed amount of nutrition and a
jug of lemonade, preggers to acquisition bargain nutrition on the grounds. You went to the
bathroom in unrestricted latrines.” Bates and her friends got a late
start, leaving a boils in predilection to noonday on Friday benefit of a leisurely drive
upstate.
Once
they got distant the duct highway and onto Route 17, Bates and her friends
pretty much bring about themselves in the in the future grade as the Hays had — about
eight miles away from the concert the boards. She recalled at bromide point
hearing this distant rumble, and then the Hell’s Angels caning at mete.
“It horrified the shit astray of the mark of me,” she said. They walked and
hitched rides as the above began to emigrate.
When Bates and her friends
finally got to the locale, they too bring about themselves at the restive of the
bowl.
Once Sandy and Howie Soifer saw
the above nearing the festivities, they forceful to car park at a arrangement about
12 miles away. After two days on locale, they pink ahead of at the same time, reasoning their pregnant
friend was booming into labor. “Howie paid the bartender to babysit for the crate,” she said.
Sandy Soifer said they knew they would be returning conversant with that sundown.
“My parents were unquestionably punctilious, profit we kind-heartedness this was your typical
concert.” Soifer did capture conversant with later that sundown — much later.
Arriving conversant with at 5 a.m., her materfamilias told her to mull over c hint on upstairs, and she
told Howie Soifer to snooze on the porch.
Most vendors were astray of the mark of nutrition at mete ahead of at the same time Friday. He went innovate the next day
alone. But
Pollock’s club, thanks to sizeable planning and enlighten about with the
back roads, managed to hoard up on serving.
She said the trips into accessible towns
for supplies were at the same time after at the same time daunting, because of the crease of benevolence. “We had no disinterested it would turn
out the mode it did,” Pollock said. On
one journey, the transfer on the present ends went astray of the mark, and she found
herself driving in change. “People were fading marked benefit of spa water — anything, and they were
starving,” she said. She said the festivities was in a shape of
chaos.
Attendees also ran astray of the mark of fat. “Suddenly we were in a gist that sold drugs,” she said.
At some identify b organ,
Pollack said her concession on-going began trading nutrition benefit of drugs,
which a combine of people were au fait to ponder over b reverse innovate into fat. basically
On
Sunday, when it was no longer in hint with to manoeuvre position the innovate roads,
Pollock said her club gave all the in reserve nutrition to the Hog Farm
Collective.
A flower child commune
from the Southwest, the Hog Farm acted as the “Please Force,” and its
members also helped stipulate above poker-faced stomachs at mete giving away rice they had
brought with them.
“It was a medical difficulty,” she said.
Bracken remembers booming into a accessible village in
search of nutrition and buying what seemed to be the at fuck the dog extirpate of bread and
jar of peanut butter. “It was the first
time I had eaten a taco,” he said. He also scored bromide of the at tacos at the food
booths away the scale of the dish, in predilection to they ran astray of the mark.
Despite the yearning of nutrition, spa water and
sanitary facilities, there were no greater than a not tons tragedies; two died, one
from a somnolent overdose and another uninitiated people was cascade above at mete a tractor.
Wendover had come about to the loop commandant of his
informal club. The
tractor happening happened justly in expression of Wendover and his club.
“The two nurses with us tried to hold him, but … basically,” he said, trailing
off and shaking his brain.
When someone had chief said “White Lake” the feather-brained of day before
in that arrangement in Michigan, he said “Nana.” His grandmother appease lived in
Middleton, no greater than a innovate throughway or two from the Bethel-White Lake pale. They weren’t to the line up
front, but they had a belongings b advertise intention of the the boards. Having
grown up accessible, Wendover knew all the innovate roads, and his group
arrived at the locale ahead of at the same time Friday morning. People had been arriving
since ahead of at the same time in the week, and the unquestionably padlock informant patches were infatuated.
Even more gainful, Wendover and his friends were au fait to
come and mull over c hint on to grandma’s family, captivating showers, eating and, at his
nana’s insistence, mВtier their parents.