SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

Woodstock started in the

Sixties... but we townsfolk were

rocking long before

As thousands descend on the festival in its 50th year, resident Sunshine

Flint sheds a little light on the history of America’s most famous – and

debaucherous – small town

Hippie Allyn Richardson, also known as Grandpa Woodstock (Getty)

If you stand on the village green of Woodstock, New York, with the white spire of the 200-year-old Dutch
Reformed Church behind you, you will see a charming small town of low clapboard buildings, one with
expensive coffee shops, an independent bookstore, and pricey boutiques, but no chain stores and not a

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