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Woodstock - 1969 - two of my three tickets

They never collected the tickets at Woodstock. I bought mine in advance and brought them home with me.

Bob Harvey drove a station wagon, Alan Stahl, Jack Papovich, and I went along. Astronauts had just walked on the moon and come home. The world was changing.

Bob Thomas

We camped in a little patch of trees behind the Bethel Presbyterian Church. Even though we drove in Thursday night we couldn't get much closer and we didn't want to park on the road. It turned out to be a good choice because they had a water spigot out back. There may have even been an outhouse. It was quite a hike to the concert site but not too bad. It was quiet enough to sleep there in the large exterior frame tent that I brought, except when some guy would blow his bugle and exhort us to "Get High!" You can see how close we were to the concert site, which we reached by walking on a path through the woods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock


That's me in the middle -- with Rod Hinwood on the left and Gary Condell on the right -- planning a trip to Newfoundland for summer of 1969.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/6vCfSBMLmYvQeJVcA

https://provost.virginia.edu/sites/provost/files/17-18%20Booklet_508.pdf

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