IF YOU WENT TO OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO WENT TO
THE ERIE CANAL SODA POP FESTIVAL;AKA BUL ISLAND
PLEASE CONTACT ME. I'D LIKE YOUR STORIES AND
PICTURES IF WOULD LIKE TOO SHARE THEM
Hi all,
I found a great place to look for hippies that may have went to Bull Island. It's a chat room in the Hippland web page. It's pretty cool cause there are a lot of like minded people there. So that is what I've been doing. I plan on going the the central library in Indianapolis and pulling up the newspaper about the concert. It's no all that informative but I would be remiss if I didn't included it. I believe there are some old grainy black and white pictures that is included in the article.
I wonder if veep Chenny will go the way on Agnuew if this leak business comes to a head, huh. I believe the Bush presidency will go down in history as a complete failure. What has he done that will stand out 20, 50, or 100 years from now? At least Clinton had a budget surplus during his stent in the White House. That's historical.
I be back with more.
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Blog Olddies
1 comments:
I was at the ECSPF back in 72. We drove from mansfield Ohio to the site, leaving on Friday (i think) morning. There were six of us who went all having purchased legal tickets, We parked in the middle of Interstae 64 and walked miles until we got to a flattened chain link fence. We couldn't figure out why nobody was taking tickets then found out the security couldn't hold the crowd back and they just walked over the fence. It was HOT walking there, carrying a 10 man tent plus all our camping gear. Three of us went ahead to get the tent set up and the others would come later with the coolers. Since they had moved the site from place to place, when we finally got into the concert arena we were dying for some water since all of our stuff was in the coolers. No drinking fountains or toilets were avaiable either. There was some guy there selling pop for 3 bucks a can. Remember this was in 1972. We got the tent set up and I laid down in it to wait for the water. I remember falling asleep and dreaming someone was shoving cotton balls down in my throat. I really don't remember anyone who played except for Black Oak. We were all doing a lot of drugs that weekend and only drinking water and pop. I don't think I ate at all. When we left on Sunday, 5 of us headed back to the car and the 6th guy started hitchhiking down to Texas. He was going to college down there and school was to start in a couple weeks. That was the last time I saw him alive. He was hit by a car and killed before he ever got to Texas. Thats my memory of the ECSPF. I would love to get more information on all the bands that played and such. I was very young then, only 22 years old. It seems like a different lifetime.
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