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Did you rock at Woodstock ’69? Museum wants to hear your peace, love and music memories

Sun Sentinel 09 Jan 2025
The (about) 450,000 people who converged on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the summer of ’69 for Woodstock didn’t all experience three days of peace, love and music ... Museum at Bethel Woods / Courtesy ... (Museum at Bethel Woods/Courtesy) ... 15-18, 1969.
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Today in Entertainment History: “The Twist” hit #1 again

Wilmington News Journal 07 Jan 2025
By The Associated Press. On Jan. 7, 1950, country performer Hank Snow made his Grand Ole Opry debut ... In 1970, neighbors of New York landowner Max Yasgur sued him for $35,000 for property damage caused by people who attended the Woodstock festival ... ....
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Aging and ailing, ‘Message Tree’ at Woodstock concert site is reluctantly cut down

Wtop 26 Sep 2024
15-18, 1969 ... Hitch noted that it has since stood as a tangible link to the historic event that drew more than 400,000 people to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm some 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of New York City over the rainy, chaotic weekend ... Source .
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Aging and ailing, 'Message Tree' at Woodstock concert site is reluctantly cut down

The Scranton Times-Tribune 26 Sep 2024
15-18, 1969 ... Hitch noted that it has since stood as a tangible link to the historic event that drew more than 400,000 people to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm some 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of New York City over the rainy, chaotic weekend ... .
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Flowers, Surfboards, and Punk Rock

The East Hampton Star 19 Sep 2024
With two other friends and an art teacher from his school as a chaperone, the 14-year-old headed with almost half a million other music fans to Max Yasgur’s farm.
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Why does 1969 Woodstock festival still matter? We yearn for that spirit of peace and love

New Jersey Herald 15 Aug 2024
Woodstock at 50. Still searching for meaning ... We still yearn for peace, love — and hope ... Then came Woodstock — or what some locals derisively called “Max’s hippie festival,” referring to the owner of the dairy farm where the bash was held, Max Yasgur.
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Woodstock’s muddled legacy: Peace and love in 1969, riots in 1999

San Diego Union-Tribune 07 Aug 2024
Woodstock was staged 80 miles northwest of New York City on a bucolic hillside owned by dairy farmer Max Yasgur ... which was held on a grassy, 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., owned by Max Yasgur.
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Back to Woodstock, with Wi-Fi: Women return after 55 years to glamp and relive the ...

St Louis Post-Dispatch 04 Jul 2024
BETHEL, N.Y ... David Shelburne ... Column ... Both women were wowed by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and other musical acts, but also by the good vibes from the 400,000 or more people who converged on Max Yasgur's dairy farm some 80 miles northwest of New York City ... .
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26 vintage photos of music festivals that will make you want to go back in time

Business Insider 02 Jul 2024
AP Images. In the words of Max Yasgur, whose land was used for the festival, "You have proven something to the world that half a million kids can get together for fun and music and have nothing but fun and music," Rolling Stone reported ... AP Images ... J.
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Wasn't It Yesterday: Banana republic?

Oelwein Daily Register 01 Jul 2024
I would like to interject my feelings on a topic I heard on the news the other morning ... This is the United States of America, where I call home ... A half a million people and 32 music acts gathered on the Max Yasgur’s farm for the Woodstock Festival ... J.D.
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Two Woodstock goers return after 55 years to glamp and relive the famous festival

New York Post 28 Jun 2024
Both women were wowed by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and other musical acts, but also by the good vibes from the 400,000 or more people who converged on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm some 80 miles northwest of New York City.
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Back to Woodstock, with Wi-Fi: Women return after 55 years to glamp and relive the famous festival

The Call 27 Jun 2024
BETHEL, N.Y ... Both women were wowed by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and other musical acts, but also by the good vibes from the 400,000 or more people who converged on Max Yasgur's dairy farm some 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of New York City ... .
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Christian Woodstock this Saturday

Washington Times Herald 12 Jun 2024
It won’t be on Max Yasgur’s farm, but the spirit of a different kind of Woodstock will be undertaken this weekend just south of Washington ... .
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Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices

The Sharon Herald 11 Mar 2024
BETHEL, N.Y. — Woodstock didn’t even happen in Woodstock ... An estimated 450,000 people converged on a swath of land owned by dairy farmer Max Yasgur to attend an “Aquarian Exposition” promising “three days of peace, love and music” from Aug ... ....
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Chasing the hazy memories of Woodstock: Cross-country effort to gather festival goers

The Daily Mail 09 Mar 2024
An estimated 450,000 teenagers and young adults descended on a swath of land owned by dairy farmer Max Yasgur to attend an 'Aquarian Exposition' promising 'three days of peace, love and music' from August 15 to 17 1969 ... The quest to gather memories ... .

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