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Woodstock Music And Art Fair

In 1969, the drew more than 450,000
people to a pasture in Sullivan county. For four days, this site became a
"countercultural mini-nation" in which drugs were all but legal, music was
plenty, and love was free. The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07 p.m.
August 15, and continued until mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival
closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst
traffic jams. It also inspired a bunch of local and state laws to ensure
that nothing like it would ever happen again. Woodstock was the idea of
four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael
Lang. The oldest of the four was 26. Their original odea was to have it ...

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problem at the festival, nearly ninety percent of the
people there were smoking marijuana. There were no violence problems
though. Approximately one hundred percent of the 33 people arrested were
charged with drug-related charges.

FOOD

Food shortage was a problem since so many people showed up who the
festival organizers wree not prepared for. Only 60,000 people were
expected to attend, yet on the first day alone, 500,000 frankfurters and
hamburgers were consumed. Constant airlifts were being operated from the
site and outlying areas, bringing in a total of 1,300 pounds of canned food,
sandwiches, and fruit. In fact, the food problems were so great that the
Women's Group of the Jewish Community Center of Monticello and the Sisters
of the Convent of St. Thomas prepared and distributed 30,000 sandwiches for
the festival ...

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Added: 5/2/2006 08:44:39 PM
Category: Music & Musicians
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