Trip to Woodstock

[Joe]

We took a trip to Bethel, New York, to see the fields where the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival took place 40 years ago.

The area is wonderfully developed with the newly-built Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, comprising of two outdoor venues and gardens A large museum opened last year. Also there are weekend harvest festivals in September and October.

The fields themselves remain relatively untouched. One has free access to walk the natural bowl-shaped hill.


The spot where the stage was, at the foot of the hill.


The very top of the hill, looking down,


From Wikipedia: A photo taken 40 years ago (note the same trees in the distance)


The monument that was all over the news this week, placed on the festival's 15th anniversary.

WikiPedia Links:
Woodstock Festival
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Bethel Woods Center official site

[mott]

Nice photos Joe. I was in HS when Woodstock was going on. I must admit I don't recall a lot of it when it was going on, only later when I went to college and heard the album and saw the movie. When I was in HS I was pretty naive about that whole culture, even in college. Later I got what it was all about, and wish I could have been more a part of it...not the pot smoking or being a hippie freak, but protesting against an unjust war.