^{The Reunion/Bearsville '98 EDA Gathering}

If you can give a ride to EDAs who really, really don't wanna walk to Bearsville, please visit the "Angel Needs A Ride" page to offer your services!!! :-)

If you plan on indoor lodging (wimpy ol' me always does), you may wish to show up on Friday the 17th, as many of the lodges and B&B's in the immediate area require a two night minimum on weekends.

another Woodstock hippie commune?

Basically, it's as simple as this. Many folks believe the Jewel list was really "spiritually" born when Hiranya first announced JewelStock in early June 1996. (Hiranya was then the lists' main contact with Jewel and her management, as she worked for Jewel in the office)

The JewelStock event itself was quite special, and many friendships were formed those three days in Woodstock/Bearsville in July 1996. Since then many "EDA gatherings" have happened, arguably due to JewelStock, most occuring without Jewel anywhere near the place.

Last year as the first anniversary of JewelStock rolled around, the idea for a major reunion/campout/EDA gathering in the Woodstock/Bearsville area surfaced, thus Bearsville 97 was born.

It was a rousing success, as over 50 people attended at various times of the three day campout. This time musical entertainment was not part of the event, and it wasn't needed, as list members pretty much:

• just hung out
• played ball
• watched Erica continually fall down playing ball
• LOLed at/with Jon Reade in the funniest baseball/softball skits since "Who's On First?" (it certainly wasn't Erica!!)
• got weirded out at the psychic fair
• bought some New Jersey rocks at the psychic fair
• did some fishing
• did some story telling
• did some high-tech bacon grilling ala Chef Akira
• learned some high-tech fire making techniques from Lauren Bond-fire
• some shared their poetry
• some shared their angelfood
• many marveled at all the comet pictures given to all by Mykle Mariette
• many raided the munchie supply depot in the bed of Crunch's truck
• many enjoyed EDA Mommy's (Tammy) Mexican breakfasts (I myself missed out)
• all wore the love beads given to them by Stephanie Karto-blah-blah-blah
• all (but Harris) ventured into Woodstock
• all (but Harris) hoped the downtown Woodstock whacko blowing in his 10-foot musical stick while noisily banging on the stick three times every eleven seconds would be taken home by the men in the white coats so he could watch The People's Court with the Rainman and share his 8 fish sticks
• all likely forgot WHO it was that had the unassisted triple play in the softball game. Was it? :
• Eric Montas?
• Tegan Goodwin?
• Jared Jacobus?
• Tom Proven?
• Kelly Magee?
• !! the answer is at the bottom of this page !!
• all but two stuffed Akira's car full of balloons
• all took in the beautiful Catskill mountains

and pretty much had a good ol' nature filled weekend.

Sooooooooooo, this year we plan on doing it all again, AND we plan on outfitting Erica with a full set of body padding just in case this years' rockballfield has more boulders in it than last years did!

OK!! I wanna go! I wanna go! Who do I write? Do I need 60's clothing & love beads and tunes by the Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane and far out groovy things like that?

For camping and general Bearsville '98 information contact Tammy "Flower Girl" Campbell at BRSVL98@aol.com

For carpooling info, contact Tom Miles at Anglride98@aol.com

For 60's clothing & love beads & far out groovy things like that, bring $$. Woodstock is chock full of shops that have this stuff. You can bring any tunes you want, but tradeable angelfood is always a must at EDA gatherings :)

• WDST 100.1 FM Radio Woodstock - a really kewel site! Your one-stop Woodstock info-center!
• Woodstock Nation
• Woodstock Online (not updated frequently at all)
• The Official Woodstock '69 website! :-)
• Woodstock Times Online
• Woodstock Times Online Colony of the Arts (music etc)
• Woodstock Times Online Calender of Events
• Bearsville Studios Homepage (where Jewel recorded what WAS going to be her next CD)