On the opening day of the first Woodstock Festival – August 15 1969 – nearly half a million Americans descended on the dairy farm of Max Yasgur, in Bethel, New York. This three-day “Aquarian ...

An event advertised as "three days of peace and music" kicked off on a farm in Bethel, New York, on this day in history, Aug. 15, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which would come to be known ...

Stephen Stills (left) and David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform at Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. It's been over five decades since the ...

Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. Officially known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, approximately 500,000 ...

August 15, 16, 17, 1969. I’ve heard so much about those historic three days. I was only 8 years old and missed out on the Summer of Love and Woodstock’s Three Days of Peace and Love in Bethel, New ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: After making an initial stop in South Florida last January, New York’s Museum at Bethel Woods will return to Boca Raton from Nov. 13 to 15 to collect more Woodstock 1969 memories from ...

On this very day in 1994, Woodstock kicked off once again. The revival, Woodstock 1994, took place to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival, which debuted in 1969. That ...

54 Below will present Return To Woodstock 1969 on Tues, October 8 at 9:30pm. This cabaret offers a fantastic opportunity to relive the magic of the iconic music festival in an intimate and immersive ...

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent.