Editing Coventry, Vermont (section)

===Coventry festival===
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In 2004, what was billed as the final concert of the band [[Phish]] was held in Coventry on August 14–15. The concert was the single largest gathering of people in the town's history. Some fans had to be turned back due to heavy rains.  Even so, with 65,000 attendees Coventry's augmented population was the largest in the state at that time, outranking [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], [[Vermont]], which had around 39,000 people in the 2000 census.<ref>{{cite news | title =Throngs Of Phish Heads Walk Into Festival Site | author =Gary E. Lindsley | url =http://www.caledonianrecord.org/phish/throngs-of-phish-heads-walk-into-festival-site.php | newspaper =The Caledonian-Record News | publisher =Caledonian-Record Publishing Company, Inc. | location =St. Johnsbury, VT | date =August 16, 2004 | access-date =February 16, 2010 | quote =VSP Sgt. Bruce Melendy said Sunday afternoon that between 65,000 and 68,000 fans made it into the Phish festival. }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The Phish concert was a two-day event (August 14–15, 2004), held at the [[Northeast Kingdom International Airport|Newport State Airport]]. People began arriving early Friday morning and shortly after the roads became congested. On Friday morning, it had rained. The soft land in the parking area had turned to mud. Cars were then turned away. Instead of driving home, they parked their cars on the median of Interstate 91, choosing to walk the rest of the way to the concert.<ref name="Billboard2004">{{cite web|title=Mud Stops Fans Headed To Phish Farewell|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/66904/mud-stops-fans-headed-to-phish-farewell|website=Billboard.com|access-date=September 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121051321/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/66904/mud-stops-fans-headed-to-phish-farewell|archive-date=November 21, 2015|date=August 14, 2004}}</ref>

Dozens of pairs of shoes, sandals and boots were lost due to the thick mud. On Sunday, at the end of the concert, tractors were brought over to help pull cars out of the mud.<ref name="Billboard2004" /><ref name="Vermont2004">{{Cite web |last=Palmer-Benson |first=Timothy |date=August 22, 2004 |title=Phish fans were stuck on Interstate 91 on Friday afternoon. Traffic was at a standstill 15 miles south of the concert site. |url=http://www.scenesofvermont.com/phish/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929235909/http://www.scenesofvermont.com/phish/ |archive-date=September 29, 2006 |access-date=September 2, 2016 |website=ScenesOfVermont.com}}</ref>