Download or read book The Far Out Story of Vortex I written by Matt Love and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the American Legion invited Richard Nixon to speak at their national convention in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 1970, Oregon Governor Tom McCall and a few area hippies came up with a plan to avoid a violent clash with anti-war protesters: they would have a free rock festival at a state park, without police intervention. Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life became "the only state-sponsored rock festival in American history."--Cover (p. [4]).