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Okay, let's get this (virtual) party started. It's a gorgeous, sun-drenched day. You walk tentatively into the Milleridge Cottage, and -- Hey! Where'd everybody go?
All right, maybe we're not off to a great start. But relax, stay awhile. You'll have fun. We promise.
"First I need a drink!" We know you do. But, please, so we know who you are, go over to the big table by the front entrance and find your name tag.
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As threatened, Crosby, Stills,
and Nash (no Young -- or, Yueng, for that matter) are on hand to make sure
you find your photo-I.D. name tag and your pair of 3-D glasses. And, of course, they've come all the way here to the Milleridge Cottage to tell you about their new business venture, "Deja View," the retirement commune-ity for the Woodstock Generation, located on the former site of Max Yasgur's farm in tranquil Bethel, New York. They'd sent you a brochure about it, remember?
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| "Hey, man! Crosby here, and out on bail. The class of '71 led all three classes in attendance, with 80-plus. Look at all of 'em! I must be trippin'! (No, seriously, I must be trippin'.)" |
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Stills oversees the name tags
for the class of '72, which had the lowest attendance. But, then, this
was our third reunion in five years.
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Graham Nash, who doubles as recreation director at Deja View, mans the table for the youngest of the three classes, the class of '73. He also is checking everyone's I.D., to make sure they're old enough to drink. |
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After reading all about the amenities offered at Deja View, where luxury condo-muniums start at just $750,000 (including private Port-O-San rumored to have been sat on by members of Canned Heat at 1969 Woodstock festival), some three dozen of you plunked down deposits. |
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The teachers also had to wear name tags — although considering that they walked around rapping us on the knuckles with wooden rulers and yelling "No talking!" they would have been readily recognizable even without them. |
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Different strokes for different folks. You were color coded according to class. |
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"You Are Here — And So Is ..." Want to know who else is at the party? Just check this board, and it'll tell you. Since we had more than 215 people, the board was about eight feet wide.
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A number of folks who wanted to attend but couldn't sent greetings to their fellow classmates, which were displayed on a board titled "Here in (School Spirit)."
Want to read what everyone wrote? Click the smile face below. |
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A bunch of people brought artifacts and other memorabilia to share with everyone. You could flip through old high-school yearbooks, photos, and other stuff.
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Or, if you wanted to read all about your fellow classmates, you could flip through all seventeen issues of the JHS Class of 1972 and Friends newsletter.
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This is what the room for the
cocktail hour looked like just seconds before the hordes descended.
Photo by Joe Friedlander |
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