We first met Vern in August, 1989 at Magic Meadow on Meads
Mountain in Woodstock, New York, where 7,000 people gathered for the 20th
anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Following that event he accompanied
Day Yusko on a 60 mile trip to the original Hurd Road site at Bethel in
Sullivan County for a massive reunion. Vern attended the next 10 reunions
in Bethel and died while preparing for Woodstock 2000.
The memorial sign above was part of a staff
campset up by Bob Parnicky on Roy
Howard's Bethel Farm on 17B the alternative gathering site used by the
Woodstock Nation for three years after being fraudulently
forced off the original site by billionaire Alan Gerry.
