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The last bedraggled fan sloshed out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more
than 25 years ago. That's when the debate began about Woodstock's
historical significance. True believers still call Woodstock the capstone
of an era devoted to human advancement. Cynics say it was a fitting,
ridiculous end to an era of naivete. Then there are those who say it was
just a hell of a party.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 drew more than 450,000 people
to a pasture in Sullivan County. For four days, the site became a
countercultural mini-nation in which minds were open, drugs were all but
legal and love was "free". The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07pm
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 slew of local and state laws to ensure
that nothing like it would ever happen again.
Woodstock, like only a handful of historical events, has become part
of the cultural lexicon. As Watergate is the codeword for a national crisis
of confidence and Waterloo stands for ignominious defeat, Woodstock has
become an instant adjective denoting youthful hedonism and 60's excess.
"What we had here was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence," said Bethel town
historian Bert Feldman. "Dickens said it first: 'It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times'. It's an amalgam that will never be reproduced
again."
Gathered that weekend in 1969 were liars and lovers, prophets and
profiteers. They made love, they made money and they made a little history.
Arnold Skolnick, the artist who designed Woodstock's dove-and-guitar
symbol, described it this way: "Something was tapped, a nerve, in this
country. And everybody just came."
The counterculture's biggest bash - it ultimately cost more than $2.4
million - was sponsored by four very different, and very young, men: John
Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. The oldest of the
four was 26. John Roberts supplied the money. He was heir to a drugstore
and toothpaste manufacturing fortune. He had a multimillion-dollar trust
fund, a University of Pennsylvania degree and a lieutenant's commission in
the Army. He had seen exactly one rock concert, by the Beach Boys.
Robert's slightly hipper friend, Joel Rosenman, the son of a prominent
Long Island orthodontist, had just graduated from Yale Law School. In 1967,
the mustachioed Rosenman, 24, was playing guitar for a lounge band in
motels from Long Island to Las Vegas.
Roberts and Rosenman met on a golf course in the fall of 1966. By
winter 1967, they shared an apartment and were trying to figure out what
they ought to do with the rest of their lives. They had one idea: to create
a screwball situation comedy for television, kind of like a male version of
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