Woodstock
The muddiest four days in history were celebrated in a drug-induced haze in Sullivan County, New York. Music soared through the air and into the ears of the more than 450,000 hippies that were crowded into Max Yasgur's pasture. "What we had here was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence," said Bethel town historian Bert Feldmen. "Dickens said it first: 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. It's an amalgam that will never be reproduced again". Woodstock also closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. Woodstock, with its rocky beginnings, epitomized the culture of that era through music, drug use, and the thousands of hippies who attended, leaving behind a legacy for future generations (Tiber 1). Woodstock was the hair brained idea of four men that met each other completely at random. The counterculture's biggest bash, which ultimately cost over $2.4 million, was sponsored by John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Michael Lang (Young 18). John Roberts was an heir to a drugstore and toothpaste manufacturing fortune. He supplied the money (Tiber 1). Joel Rosenman, the son of a prominent Long Island orthodontist, had just graduated from Yale Law School (Makowe
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Approximate Word count = 1265
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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