Sunday, August 9, 2009

"I have to be there" - PWP

"In May of 1969, my friends and I, from Youngstown, Ohio, learned that Jimi Hendrix was to perform in a festival in NY. I asked my father if we could stay at my Aunt's house in Buffalo before driving to Woodstock. He agreed. However, watching the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite on Aug 14th, there was a NY State Trooper telling the audience that the rains had created a huge mud hole and that many roads were closed. That was all my father needed to hear. He said I could not go and I was watching the TV thinking "I have to be there". So we left anyway...."

Lewis Nuzzle

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