On the opening day of the first Woodstock Festival – August 15 1969 – nearly half a million Americans descended on the dairy farm of Max Yasgur, in Bethel, New York. This three-day “Aquarian ...
The band Quill plays on stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., on August 16, 1969. (Photo by Lisa Law courtesy of National Museum of American History via Courthouse News) Over 50 ...
The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young people living ...