“I thought the whole of America had gone mad,” said The Who’s Pete Townshend about performing at Woodstock in 1969
There was no Google Maps to help you find the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival on Aug. 15-18, 1969. In place of social media there was only word-of-mouth. But that was enough to draw more than 400,000 people to a rented 600-acre parcel of Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, 100 miles north of Manhattan in the White Lake area of Bethel, N.Y.
As Woodstock approaches its 50th anniversary, nostalgia runs as thick as the ankle-deep mud in Yasgur’s pasture. Today, schoolchildren tour The Museum at Bethel Woods to view the handwritten lyrics...
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