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 ...
In the summer of 1969, the festival to top all festivals took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York (the festival site was not actually in the town of Woodstock itself). The Woodstock Music and ...
BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent.