Woodstock 35 Years Later(mk)

Mike Kraft_2

I read an article in the NY times Herald record today.Hard to believe it was 35 years ago.I was 14 at that time.I was in Lake George NY camping for a week.That was with the Boy Scouts.It was Jr. Leader Traingship.The leaders were talking about the concert and the traffic being grid lock on the NY Stae Thruway.

Did that event influence me.......yep!I missed it but am a real wannna be:)The album cover if you remember shows a man and woman hugging/huddled under a blanket.The article has their picture now and then........they're still married!!Pretty cool article.The site is an hour from my driveway.We go there for the farmers market and it is a real great place to visit.Absolutely beautiful!

cheese

Joe_51

I was still wearing diapers at the time, I would have loved to have been part of the peace and love movement.

Dave Yates (PAH)

17 & tempted

But I stayed home

We came within minutes of jumping in a friend's hippie-van though & I've often wondered what, if any, profound affect that event would have made on my life. (Aside from being fired from my job if I'd up and left with such short notice!)

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Unknown

I was in Lake George also

in diapers , like Joey . Did you go to the 2nd Woodstock in the 90s ?

Paul Pollets

I Remember

The event was originally to be held outside of Middletown NY in the Town of Wallkill. My hometown. Had just graduated high school and was excited to learn the concert would be 2 miles from my house. My friends and I applied for jobs as "security" and couldn't wait for the show. 2 weeks before showtime, the town cancels the permit, the producers pull up the stakes, and move the staging to Bethel, 40mi NW up Rt17. We knew the back roads to get to the site, and didn't get stuck in the traffic until we arrived in Bethel. The "security" job disappeared when the fences were torn down. We saw some great music and got so wet that I simply left my tent and sleeping bag. Coated with red mud for 3 days works when your 18. The scariest thing was running into my mother when I walked by the first aid station on Sat PM. She was flown in to aid the emergency with fellow nurses from Middletown. I wasn't exactly in the most sober condition to interact with my mother. She gave me a stern warning on avoiding intoxicants. 35 years later, it should be noted, The THRecord did not support the festival, and condemned its aftermath. Now it's history. It was a momentous experience to gaze out over several hundred thousand people, and despite th wicked conditions, most had a terrific time.

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chuck shaw

I was 6 years old

and on a family vacation, my dad (an Army Reserve Medical Officer, very consertive) didnt know anything about the concert, and we got stuck in the traffic for a while. Didnt go to the show, for obvious reasons, and my Dad was grumbliing about it the whole 2 week trip, to anyone that would listen.

Chuck

Bill Nye

I was..

.. 13 and my neighbors 3 houses away went. They had a garage band . I remember about two other garage bands in the neighborhood. We used to hang out and listen and smoke cigarettes.

I recall the neighbors younger brother telling us all about how they snuck off and how mad the parents were.

BillW@honeywell

I was aboard my old ship...

transiting the Panama Canal, on the way to Vietnam. We heard about it on the Armed Forces Network News.

ScottMP

Paul

word is if you can remember it, then you wer'nt really there

Would have loved to see the sparkle in your eyes.

Scott

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Ranger

Woodstock...

...I was 5,My wife and I went to the first re-union in 1994.
We had a ball.I'm told it was in the similar spirit of the origional.Glad we did'nt go in 1999.(Thay burnt everything down!)

John R. Hall

Hmmm

I might have been there...

...can't remember.

ScottMP

Sooooo

This could be you ...

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John Abbott

I was........

21 and the brown acid was definately a bad "trip"

John

Ken D.

True words

Many people don't remember it.