3 Days of Peace & Music

12/08/2009 23:32 Filed in: Reunion
This weekend is not only our celebration graduating from Rose City Park in 1969, but it’s the 40th celebration of Woodstock (3 Days of Peace & Music). So, just two months after we graduated from Rose City Park, the event that defined our generation was happening on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. That was August 15 - 18, 1969.

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In Portland, Oregon, we’re getting ready to start high school. Do you remember what that was like? High school. I vividly remember Mrs Nelson telling us to “get ready for the time of our lives”. Madison. Grant, Benson, Girls Poly. Cool, hip, groovin’ Freshman! We sure as hell didn’t know what Woodstock was... at least not until a few years later. The movie documentary in 1970. The music. Some guys named Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Joni Mitchell singing about “going to Woodstock”, as told to her by her then boyfriend, Graham Nash (she wasn’t there). So much emotion in the music that we listened to back then. Looking back, it seems like so much was going on around us and in an instant, it was gone.

And now here we are - just a couple of days away from our 40th reunion. I will be great to see everyone once again. See you on Saturday.