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the last bedraggled fan sloshed out of max yasgurs muddy pasture more than 25 years ago. thats when the debate began about woodstocks historical significance. true believers still call woodstock the capstone of an era devoted to human advancement. cynics say it was a fitting, ridiculous end to an era of naivete. then there are those who say it was just a hell of a party.
the woodstock music and art fair in 1969 drew more than 450,000 people to a pasture in sullivan county. for four days, the site became a countercultural mini-nation in which minds were open, drugs were all but legal and love was free. the music began friday afternoon at 507pm august 15 and continued until mid-morning monday august 18. the festival closed the new york state thruway and created one of the nations worst traffic jams. it also inspired a slew of local and state laws to ensure that nothing like it would ever happen again.
woodstock, like only a handful of historical events, has become part of the cultural lexicon. as watergate is the codeword for a national crisis of confidence and waterloo stands for ignominious defeat, woodstock has become an instant adjective denoting youthful hedonism and 60s excess. what we had here was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, said bethel town historian bert feldman. dickens said it first it was the best of times. it was the worst of times. its an amalgam that will never be reproduced again.
gathered that weekend in 1969 were liars and lovers, prophets and profiteers. they made love, they made money and they made a little history. arnold skolnick, the artist who designed woodstocks dove-and-guitar symbol, described it this way something was tapped, a nerve, in this country. and everybody just came.
the countercultures biggest bash - it ultimately cost more than 2.4 million - was sponsored by four very different, and very young, men john roberts, joel rosenman, artie kornfeld and michael lang. the oldest of the fou.....
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