What happened locally was, word begin to get out what was going on at the Racetrack. First...

BJ Wade, Byron Resident: What happened locally was, word begin to get out what was going on at the Racetrack. First it was the local kids, of course, they had to go and they had to see. Then, the word got out that there were hippies - real hippies - that there were naked people runnin' around out there - that there was kind of stuff going on that we knew nothing about. The traffic became even worst, because now, intermingled with ones tryin' to get to the festival, were all the locals who had to go see what was going on. Jerredean McDaniel, Byron Resident: They just could not believe that such a thing happened in this sleepy little town of Byron. BJ Wade, Byron Resident: People were completely shocked that people were taking there clothes off, that people were doing drugs out in the open, and, of course, the music was something they had never heard before.