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Looking to connect with folks who camped on the ridge at the half moon kitchen at the national gathering in Pa. in 1999.

I am in touch with some, would like to locate some of the others, post if you were there, say howdy.
damn..i cant remember where i camped at that one… so i’m gonna post just cause its slightly possible i guess..lol
oh wait i think i mightve had 2 camps there
where was half moon near?
Brother i remember you there, you were mostly on the main trail by the river, remember that jazz tent with the piano, i mean a piano that was carried into the forest?

We were up the hill, on the way to "Chico"s"
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yes, right next to musical veggie cafe & if i remember, it was popcorn kitchen at night & beautiful day kitchen during the sun light hours, they had a ton of meat, like t-bones & pork chops, i had never seen that at a gathering before
Yep, that’s how it was for all the years we combined…right up to MT’00 We’re the Cafe end of the kitchen, Cinnamon & JuJu…got remarried in’99 for our 10 yr anniversary. Did ya catch any of the zuzu balls?

Chef Boy-Ar-Dave was the meat man…most meat that ever showed up at the kitchen…so much thay we had to send Dave out to do some guest BBQing Course we always do a veggie pot, too, and ‘never shall the two spoons touch’ The kitchen veg-heads ate really well that year with all the opportunivores clamouring for the meat!
Chico’s was the one by the forest road, with all the garbage that they encouraged people to take far away & deposit.
yes, lots of meat, i kept hearing about this really kind manager at walmart who kicked down alot of stuff, even these metal grates which most kitchens used over fire pits, god bless that man, he made a huge diffrence there.
we never made it to town, let alone to walmart…someone brought some chinese take-out to the kitchen…that was cool

Do you remember the wild kitchen raps we were doing that year? The Cartoon Castle on the Top of the Hill & the Spice Girls?
That gathering was special to me, i was just out of a long term relationship, just off of a 2 year bout of Methodone program, cashed in a retirement fund, hit the road with my dog, went on ekoostic hookah tour aroung ohio, rediscovered who i was.

thats right, i started off camped by anandanandas or beyondananda or whatever it was called, and ended up movin, then being surrounded by jesis camps and krishnas everywhere..i think i was kinda near booboo calm
ohh right that was the 1 that a huge branch fellk on my tent in that big stoem and came 1 inch from crushin my skull
and i think was the last gathering ive seen pieman at (piemans on hipforums too btw)
that was also the 1 that the lightning hit that tent at the new main meadow..yea ok its all commin back to me now..lol
did u mean the piano by the chai tea? i think there was more then 1 piano there
i went to town a few times, the YMCA let us shower for a dollar & i did meet a girl named "Spice", she had this idea that she went on about for some time, she wanted to form a "sister’s spanking space", she said that it would be a place that sisters could come & get a spanking as they needed to.
i know pie man from New york city, he is actually an icon, a yippie, i always have to remind him of who i am & who i am running with even if it is online, god so many years have passed, not sure if i could jog his memory anymore, i am far too out of the new york look anymore
LOL it was a special Gathering for us too but for other reasons

are you still clean?

yes, last time i did heroine was 1997, finished methodone in 99
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hahaha yea i remember pieman was in bad shape there, and hed sleep sitting up somehow snoring loudly..i mean i can see sleeping sitting up if your in a chair with a back.. but just sitting on the ground asleep, what kept him from just falling over? i never could figure that out
this is cool remembering more and more but that gathering every second

alegheny has always been so good to us, we really desperately need an alegheny regional soon
it was a way beautiful forest…the air was perfect for bubble blowing!! After our remarriage we spent the whole nite (June 26th) doing 2 1/2 ft soap bubbles…doing raps about how we were ‘escapees from the Cartoon Castle and we had the soup but it wasn’t the soup you eat, it was the soup you blow bubbles with (but shhh it’s all a conspiracy…a conspiracy to kill the hippie mace)’ and the next thing we knew folks were trying to worship the bubbles but we had to tell them it was better to whoosh the bubbles…broke up Agro camp that nite, we did…the bubbles tripped their brain cells & they forgot to be Agro!!!
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hahaha beautiful

yea thats an amazin forrest, i spent over a month wanderin it b4 1 of the regionals, camped all over there..finaly gave up lookin..and dont ya know it..i was camped at the supply trail head taco mike showed up right were we were camped and we’d found it entirely by instinct…no dorections no nrumors nothing but spirit
we parked at the top of this steep hill i had to jump my vw bus into..and somehow filipe got his bus up in there
ever try jumping a vw bus? everything inside wnt flying..it was crazy…but was the only way i could get er up in there..damn porcupines got my stash too
ok, how about the over presence of rattle snakes at that gathering
overpressence? there were a good number..most went away..i did see a copuple..on the rock near my tent near the trail & stuff they were pretty mellow..well the 1 that bit filipe sicked bigtime 4 sure
they were everywhere, i went to shit several times as my dog ran around & you could hear them, because he was running around, i thought for sure that he or i would be bitten. But just that one brother from kiddy village got bitten & they called in a hellicopter to fly him out.
yea they shoulda maybe sooner but just the fact that calm had him doin ok that long without sendin him outside for treatments a testimate to calms skills, but they maybe shoulda evaced him sooner even thohe ended up ok..
CALM folks coulda pulled him through it. we didn’t see any snakes by our kitchen…guess we scared ‘em away. handy info:dogs handle snake bites much better than humans. as long as the bite is not on their chest, all you really need to do when a dog is bitten is give benedryl, offer plenty of water (our dog perfers ice) and watch the dog. Our dog has been bitten 2ce just patroling the yard.

And on Pieman, his health is still not good.

Ya know what? we didn’t see any uniforms either in PA, until the evacuation and even then they just walked by…
pa has always been very freindly to us
b4 that one…2 of the fs whod been commin to council took rainbow names..there was bibs..and umm something bird
but yea calm had 4 sure gotten him through..but even after evac he was touch n go..although quite possibly calm woulda done better
u remember 1 year some1 broke theyre back..were evaced..checked out of the hospitol..took a cab and tried crawling back to calm…i’ve broken my back….thats an amazing amount of paun he hadta go tjhrough tryin to get back to bein treatted at calm..
This was the first time I had ever heard of the gathering. I was 12 and if I remember this gathering was somewhere near Ridgeway I think, well that is very close to where i’m from, if it wasn’t near there it was close to where i was from probably less than an hour, sadly all I really got out of the experience being too young to understand or go was a somewhat overall negative sentiment toward "those rainbow people" from some of the people around me. However, as life usually does things came full circle and I now am one of "those rainbow people" and as it has so many times in the past few years a lot of light has been shone on the ugliness, the judgement and the closed-ness that a lot of the people that existed in the place of my origin showed. There will probably never be a national gathering that close again, but I am definetly keeping my fingers crossed for a regional =).
yup it was ridgeway
the time i spent a minth there before a reguinal (near tidiout) i went thru rudgeway and a car load of kids threw stuff at us and yelled some shit…

few weeks later at the gathering some1 tackles me in a great big tearfull hug.. i had no clue who it was….
turned out to be the kid whod thrown stuff at me
he had come to the gathering thinkin hed cause alittle trouble with them damn rainbows… and as he found out he already was 1 of em…he had a totaly different and enlightened perception of what rainbow family was…
welcome home and thank you for the warm invite into whats really your back yard
Yes, there was some negitive vibs toward us, not so much in ridgway but in St Mary’s ( think that was what it was called, it was where walmart was )
hmm ive only experienced that 1 incident, over quite a few years..and that was only when i got there over a month b4 anyone else..and like i said his attitude towards rainbow turned around completely once he found out 1st hand what we were about
in general tho allegheny has always welcomed uswith open arms, and even our relationship with fs has been better then usual.. i dunno about now exactly, but in the past the fs had extended an open invite to come back topa anytime
and altho i wouldnt like to see another ocala like situation where pa is always expected to have an anual regional, i’m amazed we havent taken em up on that and had any regionals in the past few years
well, this thread is dieing out, so if you had camped there at half moon, send me a pm here. peace
repost on agr maybe…probly a better chance of findin folks there