Life - Woodstock at 50 - 2019

WOODSTOCK 50 THREE AMAZING DAYS OF PEACE AND MUSIC AT ...

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FOR SOME, THE RIDE TO Woodstock was a blast. For most, it turned into a slow roll and then a long, long walk. Yet somehow nearly ...

contents 4 Back to the Garden Woodstock bloomed during a summer of distress 10 Down to Yasgur’s Farm The festival was a triumph ...

Woodstock EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kostya Kennedy EDITOR David Bauer WRITER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Richard Jerome Christina Lieberman ...

MERICA IS HOPELESSLY DIVIDED. How many times daily do rueful cable pundits, Internet oracles, and TED talkers remind us of this ...

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“Nixon talked about bringing us all back together and rang in his presidency with an uplifting and unifying speech.” (“We have e ...

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& Music,” the event quickly came to be known as Woodstock. It sounds like a quaint country fair, but in fact the festival wa ...

The mass gathering saw plenty of nudity, stoned sex, and unfettered hedonism, which predictably drew some pearl-clutching in cer ...

ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE festival, a skinny, middle-aged fellow in a distinctly unhip white shirt appeared onstage to greet the f ...

Woodstock might never have happened were it not for a dairy farmer named Max Yasgur who somehow agreed that it would be a great ...

OODSTOCK WAS A TRIUMPH of persistence, and it began with Brooklyn-born Michael Lang, who in 1969 was a cherubic 24-year-old ex-h ...

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THE FESTIVAL STAFF SET UP A rural headquarters (above) in nearby Bethel—with suitably groovy decor—in what they would dub the Te ...

attorney general in the Johnson Administration (among other federal posts) to supervise security. Now came a scramble to find a ...

“’Max Yasgur. He’s the biggest dairy farmer in the county.” Before long, Lang was meeting with the slender, bespectacled Yasgur ...

The “Angel of Woodstock” was a conservative Republican farmer with a bad heart—but a big one. Born in New York City to Russian J ...

iron. I was thinking, ‘He’s cleared this land himself.’ ” There were further twists, turns, and complica- tions, including some ...