In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...

“Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars” details how the community adapted to change brought by artists and hippies who moved in Woodstock town historian Richard Heppner’s latest book, “Woodstock: ...

In August 1969, Henry Kissinger met in secret to try and end the Vietnam War. Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi coast, killing over 250 people. The Manson family went on a murderous rampage ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essays ...

August 15 marks the 48th anniversary of the festival concert by which all rock concerts will forever be measured. In August 1969, some 500,000 hardy souls appeared at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New ...

In the summer of 1969, 400,000 hippies, bohemians, artists, and revolutionaries of all stripes descended on a small dairy farm in Bethel, New York for Woodstock, an event celebrating peace, youthful ...

Michael Lang, the man most closely associated with the staging of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, is giving Ang Lee’s new movie about the famous festival, Taking Woodstock, his stamp of ...

They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. This week lots of people are trying to remember Woodstock, the legendary music festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 50 years ago. I was there, ...

Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective attendees ...