[Vision2020] Where did those 42 years go?

[Carl Westberg]

On much more locally related history, do any other old-timers here besides me remember or attend the "Universal Life Church Picnic" at Farragut State Park in the summer of 1971, thus this summer marking the 40th anniversary of that event?  It was advertised discretely in various "underground" newspapers on the west coast, thereby subversively bypassing the authorities who were apparently indeed expecting a "church picnic", instead putting on what was in reality a "Mini-Woodstock", 3 days, 24 hours a day, of music and, shall we say, some, or maybe a little more than some, Woodstock type of behavior.  (Ahem)  It was actually orchestrated by a group of people here in Moscow, and the estimated turnout at the peak was as high (so to speak) as 40,000 people, about 4 of them being me and some friends.  We, of course, drank ice water (well, maybe a few beers) and were shocked, absolutely shocked, I tell you, at the behavior.  The powers that be were less than pleased about the whole thing.

> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:39:22 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Where did those 42 years go?
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> CC: idahovandal1 at live.com
> 
> Bro "C" is talkin', of course, about . . .
> 
> "Freedom" by Richie Havens
> (at Woodstock '69)
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Freedom_RichieHavens.mp3
> 
> There have been so SOOO many bands that got their start on that farm field
> in upstate New York back then.
> 
> Here, let Walter Cronkite describe it . . .
> 
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Woodstock_Cronkite.mp3
> 
> Woodstock wasn't a happening.  It was (and still is) a culture.
> 
> There hav e been so many songs from that farm field, but one keeps coming
> back to my mind.
> 
> "I Feel I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
> (at Woodstock '69)
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Fixin_to_Die_Rag_CountryJoe.mp3
> 
> Has it really been 42 years???
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, August 15, 2011 2:15 pm, Carl Westberg wrote:
> >
> > August 15, 1969.  First day of Woodstock.  Best performance..Richie Havens
> > and "Motherless Child"......
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> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Author Unknown
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