I'd a been into it 35 years ago, anymore I just don't have the interest. I'd rather spend the time tying a few flies and wading around in a nice cold stream somewhere by myself...
I will be in Tokyo the first week of November, though, if anyone's gonna be out that way...
As I type this I am looking out my home office window at a clean unspoiled mountain river. Each day I can fish if I want to or not. The water is clean to swim in and eat a few fish. If it wasn't for acid rain and mercury fall-out from mid-west power plants I could drink the water every day.
Trips to Tokyo make a man glad to get back to nature and be alone in the river, I know I have been there. As for now, I have been on the river for 20 years and I guess I take it for granted. An occasional outing with a large group is my diversion not the rule. I live in a back woods town of 4000 people on the Appalacian trail and have no desire to ever go back to the rat race.
Self employment and mountain streams in my back yard are heaven to me, but once a year I journey back to Woodstock and see a younger generation celebrating an ideal they missed and an older 60's generation remembering (at least some remember)what a great time it really was.
littlehawk - I collect Woodstock memorabillia, what do you have? E-mail me.
Babe you must be near me- a backwoods town of 4000 on the appalachian trail-, is just where I live..except I think we are 5000 or so,a real megalopolis that has everything I need..I dont see how anyone can live any other way myself, but to each his own--thanks for the info--maybe Ill take the hour trek over to Bethel for grins in August
Yasgurs Farm is on Rt.17B just a few miles north of Bethel. Impossible to miss the festival site. You will see many cars in the field but the "freaks" will be in the woods. Saturday night there will be a concert in the open field. There may be a surprise. :D-->
There is a music festival here this weekend...about 50 or 60 bands--my town is inundated with fiddlers, banjo players and guitarists from all over, impromptu jams have been breaking out all over town all week in anticipation of the festival--its great fun....
this all before the festival has even started....I am looking forward to it..
Its been voted the best small music festival for a few years running (about 20-30,000 for 3 days).
Im about an hour or two from Bethel.
If anyone is heading down or up or over to the Woodstock site---c'mon over and hear some great music for awhile
and ps--- my green these days is limited to barley juice and dips in the Green River--but I am sure there will be a few thousand who will be glad partake with you!
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I wish it was---this is more of a jambands ala Phish type get together---which is not really my thing--but it is in my backyard--so I am checking in and out for the acts I want to see, mostly the newgrass type stuff.
Jay is from up here and plays around a lot,so I get to see him once in awhile, he is a very warm and down to earth musician. He has a fiddle and dance camp about an hour or so away in the Catskills, which from what Ive heard is really great.
I caught him and his family a year or so ago in a little country church. They played mostly civil war era songs that night, you may have enjoyed that, it was very moving.
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There will be a "Yard Sale" at the farm. Last year 5000 people showed up for it to support the effort to preserve the original concert site.
Concerts are not allowed there now or even at the farm but they can't stop a three day "LAWN SALE" at the farm with a fee for parking.
I will be there. Good place for a G/S gathering also. Anyone want to join me? ovr50nfree will be there also.
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thanks for the info. babe
isn't that during the same time as the rock ? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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I'd a been into it 35 years ago, anymore I just don't have the interest. I'd rather spend the time tying a few flies and wading around in a nice cold stream somewhere by myself...
I will be in Tokyo the first week of November, though, if anyone's gonna be out that way...
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I hears ya George......wish I could be there and help ya drown some of them freshly tied fly's!
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AintMeBabe....drop by...I'll give ya some high dollar memorabillia.....might pay the gas fare!
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George & Littlehawk
As I type this I am looking out my home office window at a clean unspoiled mountain river. Each day I can fish if I want to or not. The water is clean to swim in and eat a few fish. If it wasn't for acid rain and mercury fall-out from mid-west power plants I could drink the water every day.
Trips to Tokyo make a man glad to get back to nature and be alone in the river, I know I have been there. As for now, I have been on the river for 20 years and I guess I take it for granted. An occasional outing with a large group is my diversion not the rule. I live in a back woods town of 4000 people on the Appalacian trail and have no desire to ever go back to the rat race.
Self employment and mountain streams in my back yard are heaven to me, but once a year I journey back to Woodstock and see a younger generation celebrating an ideal they missed and an older 60's generation remembering (at least some remember)what a great time it really was.
littlehawk - I collect Woodstock memorabillia, what do you have? E-mail me.
"No-No-No,It Ain't Me you'r looking for, Babe.
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Babe you must be near me- a backwoods town of 4000 on the appalachian trail-, is just where I live..except I think we are 5000 or so,a real megalopolis that has everything I need..I dont see how anyone can live any other way myself, but to each his own--thanks for the info--maybe Ill take the hour trek over to Bethel for grins in August
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We are on the same trail but I am about 400 miles north of you.
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Getting close.
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Print up the map --its in Bethel isnt it?
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up on high
whatever
[This message was edited by up on high on July 27, 2003 at 15:56.]
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http://www.thewoodstockspirit.org/cgi-bin/...ct=ST;f=1;t=174
Yasgurs Farm is on Rt.17B just a few miles north of Bethel. Impossible to miss the festival site. You will see many cars in the field but the "freaks" will be in the woods. Saturday night there will be a concert in the open field. There may be a surprise.
:D-->
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mstar1
Ya gonna be there?
I got some fine "closet green".
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Dear AintMeBabe, Please excuse my ignorance but what is "closet green?"
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up on high
If I have to explain, you don't want to know.
:D-->
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Dear AintMeBabe,
Ok ok I get your message !!
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AintMeBabe,
I changed my mind, I'm curious, I do want to know, what is "green closet?"
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It's "closet green".
"No-No-No,It Ain't Me you'r looking for, Babe."
[This message was edited by AintMeBabe on July 28, 2003 at 14:20.]
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Babe (or anyone else heading to Yasgurs's place)-
Im not much of a nostalgiaist,
There is a music festival here this weekend...about 50 or 60 bands--my town is inundated with fiddlers, banjo players and guitarists from all over, impromptu jams have been breaking out all over town all week in anticipation of the festival--its great fun....
this all before the festival has even started....I am looking forward to it..
Its been voted the best small music festival for a few years running (about 20-30,000 for 3 days).
Im about an hour or two from Bethel.
If anyone is heading down or up or over to the Woodstock site---c'mon over and hear some great music for awhile
Berkshire Mountain Music Festival
e-me if you want to get together mstarsg1@aol.com
and ps--- my green these days is limited to barley juice and dips in the Green River--but I am sure there will be a few thousand who will be glad partake with you!
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mstar...
Is that a Jay Ungar thing?
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I wish it was---this is more of a jambands ala Phish type get together---which is not really my thing--but it is in my backyard--so I am checking in and out for the acts I want to see, mostly the newgrass type stuff.
Jay is from up here and plays around a lot,so I get to see him once in awhile, he is a very warm and down to earth musician. He has a fiddle and dance camp about an hour or so away in the Catskills, which from what Ive heard is really great.
http://www.ashokan.org
I caught him and his family a year or so ago in a little country church. They played mostly civil war era songs that night, you may have enjoyed that, it was very moving.
Are you a fiddler Ron?
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no yen for woodstock here.
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