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3 of us young people from work (early 20's post college computer workers) decided to go because of the great group of performers advertised. Not hippies but music lovers. We even had tickets!

Left New Haven Friday after lunch and drove the backroads in without hitting much heavy traffic. Stayed off the highways. Pulled into our field (farmers had their fields open for campers) and we walked the 1/2 mile to the hill.

My most indelible memory of the weekend was walking up that road and hearing Richie Havens playing "Freedom" to open the show. Got to the Main gate to find all the fences were down...no tickets needed.

We had plenty of food, plenty of water and a great tent set up in the field so never felt in jeopardy.

I ended this great weekend by leaving Sunday morning, got home and cleaned up and caught the 1st Giants / Jets pre-season football game ever held at Yale Bowl.

Great music, great weekend!!!