Powder Ridge Rock Festival
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Powder Ridge Rock Festival
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The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was scheduled to be held July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970, at Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut. A legal injunction forced the event to be canceled, keeping the musicians away; but a crowd of 30,000 attendees arrived anyway, to find no food, no entertainment, no adequate plumbing, and at least seventy drug dealers. William Manchester wrote: "Powder Ridge was an accident waiting to happen, and it happened." Volunteer doctor William Abruzzi declar
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Canceled rock festival scheduled for Middlefield, Connecticut on August 1970
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2024-02-11T04:32:45Z
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