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It was a festival.

We almost didn’t go to Powder Ridge on Thursday, July 30th, because the reports between the Blood, Sweat and Tears singles on the radio were ominous. 'There would be road blocks’, ‘there was a huge traffic jam’, ‘National Guardsmen were just waiting to.

August 1, 1970
Lisa Robinson

It was a festival.

We almost didn’t go to Powder Ridge on Thursday, July 30th, because the reports between the Blood, Sweat and Tears singles on the radio were ominous. 'There would be road blocks’, ‘there was a huge traffic jam’, ‘National Guardsmen were just waiting to. spring on the youth assembling in Meridan, Connecticut’. The locals were really trying to stop the kids from coming. But Danny Fields, Loraine Alterman, Henry Edwards and I figured that it would be an adventure, and wanted to go even more. All the beautiful children were sure to be there even though a court injunction had been handed down three days before preventing the actual music festival from taking place.

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