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Slackers
Dan Berthiume
If Julius Caesar or Kurt Cobain found themselves in corporate America today, how would they react? Without the relevant resume experience that shouldn't be a probelm...

A Mission to Coventry, Vermont
Team Meniscus
When 70,000 phans come from all over the country to converge on a mud-soaked fairly land of joy and despair, things are bound to get interesting. See for yourself.

Crystal Boots Premiere!
A film by Drayton Patriota
Get a sneak preview of the hugely-anticipated, highly awaited story of one woman overcoming her fears. Get the story and the movie trailer here!

Please Add "Positivity" to the Dictionary!
On Behalf of Meniscus Magazine
The word "positivity" is an integral component of our philosophy here at Meniscus Magazine—but its not a recognized word in Merriam-Webster's dictionary! We think that should change.

 

A
Mission
to Coventry

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1. The 37 Hour Party in Traffic

Published 9/2504

 


Photography by Jon Heinrich

Good thing we were were stocked with 30 cases of supplies when we set off for the last Phish show in Coventry, Vermont. An unusually rainy August left the concert grounds ankle deep in mud making the final showdown for the band, an all out test of will. After waiting in traffic for up to 40 hours, 20 miles of traffic on Interstate 91 were turned away from the concert. In a mad dash, thousands of phans abandoned their cars on the median of the highway and made the 6 mile trek.

It all started Thursday night in line. The weekend was by all means an epic event and a good time accompanied every moment.

 

Getting into the spirit of The Bunny, the FM radio station set up for the event; shown here hosting an I-91 disco party only a few hours into traffic.

 

After spending the night crawling along I-91, we finally turned off the highway Friday morning. Only 10 miles now to go!

Approx. 12 hrs in.

 

 

Ok this is getting wierd, its getting dark again...and now its raining, again.

Luckily 22 hours of delierium helped with the tedium.

 

It was heart breaking when, over The Bunny, Mike Gordon told the phans in traffic that those cars still on I-91 were going to be turned around.

Yeah sorry Mike, we're not going anywhere.

 

Finally after, count em, 36 hours we saw the light at the end of the parkway. If you weren't a little bit demented before this trip, you definitely are now.

 

"Don't Jersey Vermont"

 

Ahh, this is what we waited 37 hours for, camp at last! As we set up camp, swarms of carless phans flow in the thousands.

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