Essay Archive - Woodstock Music And Art Fair
Woodstock Music And Art Fair
In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair drew more than 450,000
people to a pasture in Sullivan county. For four days, this site became a
"countercultural mini-nation" in which drugs were all but legal, music was
plenty, and love was free. The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07 p.m.
August 15, and continued until mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival
closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst
traffic jams. It also inspired a bunch of local and state laws to ensure
that nothing like it would ever happen again. Woodstock was the idea of
four young me....
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