WOODSTOCK // 50 YEARS LATER
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, I wanted to share my experience visiting the site of the festival in Bethel, NY and the importance of it a half-century later - Enjoy! Woodstock Art and Music Festival was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in rural Bethel, NY, on August 15, 16, and 17 in 1969. It was the epitome of the counterculture made up of the American youth during the late 1960s and early 1970s. No music festival has ever had as much of an impact on society as Woodstock has. It took place at the end of a very tumultuous decade in modern U.S. history. The festival was billed as “3 Days of Peace and Music”, which considering how many people attended, there were no issues with violence. According to a firsthand account from attendee Glenn Weiser, “A city of that size also would have had a predictable number of violent crimes in a three-day period, and this simply didn't happen… love had beaten the odds. The miracle of a multitude at peace wit...