Rock Fans Feel Beat of History

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal by Pierre-Rene Noth • Monday, July 28, 1969 The grandstand at state fair park was strangely quiet Monday. The first Midwest Rock festival — three days of the loudest and perhaps best sound Milwaukee has heard — was over....

Rock Party a ‘Pigsty,’ Legislator Charges

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal • Monday, July 28, 1969 Declaring that they three day Midwest Rock festival “would have made Haight-Ashbury blush,” Assemblyman Robert T. Huber (D-West Allis) said Monday he would present complaints from his constituents...

Rock Fans Won’t Be Charged

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal • Monday, July 28, 1969 Deputy Dist. Atty. Allen L. Samson decided not to bring charges against six young people believed to have taken hallucinogenic drugs, but he sternly lectured four of them. The six were treated at...

Rain Scrubs Music; Fellowship Carries On

Originally published in the Milwaukee Journal • Monday, July 28, 1969 Those who went to the Midwest Rock show at state fair park for music and fellowship had to settle mainly for fellowship Sunday. A driving, off and on rain (mostly on) forced the show promoters to...

Folk Singer Plans Funds for Center

Originally published in the Milwaukee Sentinel by Keith Spore • Saturday, July 26, 1969 Cree Indian folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie said here Friday night that she intended to present an endowment to the proposed Milwaukee Indian center. Miss Sainte-Marie, who...