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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
The phrase was coined by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, [1] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who ...
The Hog Farm is an organization considered America's longest running hippie commune.Beginning as a collective in North Hollywood, California, during the 1960s, a later move to an actual hog farm in Tujunga, California gave the group its name.
During the early 1969 Be-In/Peace Rally, The Village Voice reported that there was said to be between 15,000 and 20,000 people in attendance. This be-in became more radical than the other be-ins that previously took place in Central Park, as bonfires erupted. One person described Sheep Meadow as having "the aura of a bombed out battlefield".
Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. [6] [7]The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh in his directional debut.
Even more significant was the Woodstock festival, ... "Pop Culture Madness 1969 Pop Music Chart". "Hippie". Podcast. 1969. Archived from the original on April 4, 2009.
At the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival, two weeks after Woodstock, Romney was lying onstage, exhausted after spending hours trying to get festival-goers to put their clothes back on. He later explained, "They had these conga drummers on the stage, and I said, 'Don't dance on the wavy gravy'.