Abbie Hoffman was sort of pointing out that when the Queen and Ike opened the St. Lawrence Seaway through New York and Ontario there was no port for New York, but it sure was important for Chicago (it's proponent Dr. Myer there) though we do share a hydro dam near Cornwall, where the Mohawk live between "us".
There was another bus, the Hogfarm, maybe you remember their commune in "Easy Rider"? Last I saw them they (head of it an almost medical doctor, everything except his final) held court there at Woodstock, presided over by Wavy Gravy at Woodstock Music ands Arts Festival, at their small stage that "Quarry" played and Joan Baez came down to sing a number. In "Three Men With Unlimited Capital" (the ad, its genesis in the NY Times that started the festival, and later book, almost in Wallkill, NY first, named after another place it didn't take place in, where the year before (1968) Bob Dylan and others were seen, including Jimi and maybe Janice) the author alleges Abbie Hoffman wanted a bribe to not show up and create political trouble at the festival. He needn't have, I was standing there with a ticket as the collective attendees took down the chain link fence.
The Hogfarm bus was last heard of in "Quest" I think mag, trying to wipe out smallpox, the world's last case to have been in India. Back in 1974 or so it was reported in Buffalo, NY that the "Indians" had chased them off their land in the American Southwest where they were once.
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