p.s. We couldn't give my kids the the fancy pants things great wealth can buy, like prep schools (my daughter cried when she was admitted to Emma Willard School but we had to inform her $30,000/yr tuition was out of the question even if we could give up "luxuries" like tour), but we did get a chance to take them to Dead shows and Phish shows at a early ages, 11 and 13. Our 1997 "family vacation" to the Great Went in an RV was something none of us will ever forget (thanks in large part to our friends Shelly and Noah and those VIP patches...our kids grew up thinking you just sort of got patches with tickets.) LOL.

That 30th anniversary movie montage last night, especially the part about the festivals -- we attended all nine and every Halloween except this years -- brought back a lot of memories.