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PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
Musician Bob Grimm beside the Woodstock VW "Light", painted by Hieronimus. Hieronimus sits down for an interview with a film crew from Brazil. Hieronimus's most famous artcar, the Volkswagen bus "Light" (better known as "the Woodstock bus"), was photographed by the Associated Press and Rolling Stone at the original 1969 Woodstock , and is still ...
Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. (born May 15, 1936), known as Wavy Gravy, is an American entertainer and peace activist best known for his role at Woodstock, as well as for his hippie persona and countercultural beliefs.
The Hog Farm were given a free campsite at Skarpnäck, a small glider airfield outside Stockholm proper together with an assortment of ecology activists. A free kitchen was established there by the Swedish Army, who brought several mobile cooking units and hundreds of pounds of oatmeal, wheat flour, rice, and other foods. The Free Food Kitchen ...
"I have talked to people who attended Woodstock when they were 5, but the average age of people who were there was 18," said Neal V. Hitch, senior curator at the Museum at Bethel Woods. The museum ...
The most widely spread story in the media is that Gonzalo Caro Carolo, a well-known hippie from Medellín, imagined the festival while he was resting on a beach in San Andrés under the effects of LSD. The lot where it would take place, for its part, was chosen during a trip by Caro to the region in search of psilocybin mushrooms. [4] [10]
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Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life is a memoir describing the origins of the 1969 Woodstock Festival by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. It was published in 2007 by Square One Publishers, Inc., and was adapted into a film of the same name by James Schamus, Ang Lee's long time writing/producing partner. It was released in ...