Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essays ...
WOODSTOCK >> The Tibetan Buddhist leader known as His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa told about 800 people in an Earth Day speech Wednesday that Woodstock – which he called the “land of hippies” – ...
In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...
In the summer of 1969, 400,000 hippies, bohemians, artists, and revolutionaries of all stripes descended on a small dairy farm in Bethel, New York for Woodstock, an event celebrating peace, youthful ...
August 15 marks the 48th anniversary of the festival concert by which all rock concerts will forever be measured. In August 1969, some 500,000 hardy souls appeared at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New ...
A freewheeling weekend of indulgence. A New York farm transformed by idealistic youths into a mid-size city. A celebration of rock music and utopian ideals. Woodstock was many things but one thing is ...
Fifty years ago Thursday Les Poinelli was hitch-hiking to the now storied Woodstock music festival he'd heard about on the radio -- and hopped in the car where he would meet his wife. Today he's ...
They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. This week lots of people are trying to remember Woodstock, the legendary music festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 50 years ago. I was there, ...
What was it like to be at Woodstock? It’s a question that attendees have been fielding since Graham Nash regaled then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell (who’d been stuck in New York City that weekend preparing ...
Michael Lang rode his motorcycle over to Elliott Landy’s house on Jones Quarry Road in Woodstock, N.Y., the town both men were residing in at the time. "And he said to me, 'I'm producing a concert. Do ...