Volume 10, Chapter 13 August 1 – 30, 2009, Poland “Over my dead body!” screamed the woman over the telephone. As I entered the office I could hear every word she was saying to Nandini dasi: “Never! I’ll never rent my school to you people! Not in a million years!” With that, she hung up. “Gosh,” I said. “Who [...]
Woodstock festival
Up on the Hill
Volume 5, Chapter 24 July 25 – 31, 2004,The Woodstock Festival, Poland . As I work on this chapter of my diary, I am at a loss as to how to begin and how to finish. The great Woodstock festival has just concluded. I don’t know how to put it into words – Krsna’s Village of [...]
Help From Above
Volume 5, Chapter 7 July 02 – August 16, 2003, The Woodstock Festival, Poland. Mathuranath das and I were the first to arrive on the Woodstock field, two weeks before the great three-day event. Although 52 bands and 500,000 people would soon come here, only a few rabbits now scurried across the large grass field that [...]
Woodstock: A New Direction
Volume 9, Chapter 11 August 1 – 3, 2008, Woodstock festival, Poland As always, we arrived in Kostrzyn a week before the Woodstock Festival. When I went to look at the enormous field where the event would take place, I was surprised to see that the main stage had already been set up. Hours later our boys [...]
Modern-Day Pastimes
Volume 7, Chapter 11 July 27 – August 01, 2006, Poland. Devotees worked day and night for a week to get Krsna’s Village of Peace up and running in time for the Woodstock Festival. In the evenings, people from the nearby town of Kostrzyn would drive out to the site and sit on the grass watching [...]

