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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 Coming Around Again Susan Reynolds 1
2 Breakfast in Bed for 400,000 Lisa Law 7
3 Flashbackwards-and-Forwards Jeremiah Horrigan 11
4 The Haze Wasn't Purple Louis Mello 17
5 A Republican Hippie on Max Yasgur's Farm John M. DeVoe 21
6 Nothing Ventured Alan Kolman 26
7 A Day in the Country Colleen Plimpton 29
8 High Flying Bird Michele Kadison 34
9 Five Days of Peace & Music Sandy McKnight 39
10 A Neurotic Child of God Michele Hax 43
11 The Search Philip Pisani 48
12 To Be French and Born Again in America Francis Dumaurier 51
13 How I Spent My Summer Vacation Louis S. Denaro 56
14 Grooving on the Weekends Rozanne Reynolds 61
15 By the Time They Got to Woodstock, I Was Already There Jeff Blumenfeld 66
16 The Wheels on the Bus Sandra Johnson 71
17 Peace and Music in Wartime Bob Brown 75
18 I Had to Go John Northlake 80
19 Bob Dylan: AWOL or MIA? Geraldine Goldberg 84
20 I Still Remember Him Michele Starkey 87
21 The Least Interesting Woodstock Story (With the Oddest Epilogue) Jim Edwards 91
22 The First Attempt to Land a Man on Earth Yerucham Teitelbaum 95
23 My Dad Made Me Do It Anita Lopez Winder 99
24 Sojourn '69 Scott A. Munroe 104
25 A Spiritual Journey: Meeting the Woodstock Guru Rev. Prem Anjali, PhD 109
26 Where to Now, Pilgrim? Robert Paul Blumenstein 114
27 Finding My Way Home Vinny Stefanelli 118
28 Lost Innocence Robert Rohloff 122
29 One Flakey Chick at Yasgur's Farm Barbara L. Heller 126
30 Ribbon of Humanity Valerie Ptak LaMont 130
31 I'm in the Movie, Man Peter McAlevey 133
32 With the Film Crew Catherine Hiller 138
33 August Is My Summer of '69 John Bianco with JonJaboolian 141
34 The Top of the Psychedelic Food Chain Brian King 146
35 Opposite Poles Janine Fleury 149
36 The Little Car That Could Michael Sciulla 153
37 When I Was Fifteen... Linda W. Hamilton 157
38 The Yin Yang of the Summer of '69 Phil Vinall 161
39 Peace, Man R.G. Nourse 165
40 One Way or Another S.K. List 168
41 Music, Dope, and Good Times Pam Crowe-Weisberg 173
42 The Fences Are Down Edward D. Christensen 177
43 Skipping the Light Fandango Bob Dickey 180
44 The Road That Was Taken Barbara Greenough Acker 185
45 Nice Jewish Camp Goes to Folk Festival D. Dina Friedman 189
46 From Chicago to Woodstock Peter Faur 193
47 Riding the Crest of the Wave Richard Gladstein 198
48 Seeking Wholeness Phaedra Greenwood 202
49 Last Minute Hookup Glenn Nystrup 207
50 The Axis of Boomer Wisdom Dixon Hearne 212
Woodstock Glossary 217
Woodstock Performers 227
Woodstock Stats 231
Index 235
nickanmaxie
Posted September 1, 2009
It would have been more interesting if more of the people would have actually been there for the whole concert/any of it. But all in all you got a pretty good insight on some of that time. (1969)
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This collection contains fifty stories written by people who attended the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Since all the books that preceded it have focused on the musicians, promoters, and staff, this book will be the first one that chronicles the audience's experience in an up close and personal way. This book documents the event itself, but also provides a mesmerizing portrait of America as that tumultuous decade came to a close. It is nostalgic, historical, and a fascinating read that will appeal to all Baby Boomers, their offspring, and anyone who wonders what it was really like--and what became of all those "hippies."