Twenty-three year-old Ben Pomeroy and two friends left their
home in Greenville, South Carolina, Friday morning on a road
trip to see old friends. Twenty-two hours later, they joined
the line on I-91 with thousands of others waiting to enter
tiny Coventry, Vermont, where friends Trey, Page, Mike and
Jon would be arriving soon. However, Ben and most of the masses
had never even met the four men. They only knew them as the
band Phish, who played their final shows last weekend. But
tragedy seemed to befall Pomeroy when he heard the band's
management was turning vehicles away due to torrential rains
that rendered huge areas of the 600-acre concert site unusable.
But after their 1000-mile journey, Pomeroy and friends wouldn't
take "no" for an answer. They locked their car,
grabbed all they could carry, and began the eight-hour hike...[Read
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