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Woodstock 50

August 18, 2019 – 7:19 pm

On the weekend of Woodstock I was washing dishes at a South Shore hotel outside of Boston. The radio stations reported that hundreds of thousands of hippies were gathering for the Woodstock Music Festival. The announcers were somewhat astounded by this phenomena of a half million young people pulling off the impossible. The creation of […]

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Woodstock Plus 55 Years

April 18, 2012 – 8:49 pm

On the weekend of August 15-18 in 1969 I was 17 years-old. My hair was a little long. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of young people were heading to the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. I had to work washing dishes. There was nothing cool about that. I dropped out for permanent that autumn. […]

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