MADISON: After I reported the first Harvest Fest had it’s roots as an anti-war rally, I heard from “a reliable source” who was among the organizers of the first of what will be 40 marijuana harvest festivals this weekend. The source, who wishes to go unnamed, shared some memories of the first fest:

Harvest Fest was a smoke-in from the get-go.

We asked the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to get the permit for use of Brittingham Park because we didn’t think that the city would give the Yippies a permit for anything (this was before [Paul] Soglin was elected Mayor) but figured they wouldn’t be able to deny it to the vets.

What we didn’t know was that we were so thoroughly infiltrated that this strategem was reported by the informants and therefore completely known to the police and whoever the police chose to tell.

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