What was it like to be at Woodstock in 1969?

Going to Woodstock was interesting. Getting the hell out of there was ecstasy.Four of us set out on the morning of Friday, August 16, 1969—me, fresh out of the Navy: my college friend Phil: and our girlfriends, Karen and Mary. read more

This month, in 1969, nearly half a million music lovers got together at a dairy farm in New York for the legendary 3-day Woodstock Festival. read more

I was a teenager in a town 50 miles or so from the Woodstock music festival. We were not really hippies, although we weren’t young republicans by any stretch, just normal teens in the sixties. read more

The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture. read more