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The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was a landmark rock festival held on Max Yasgur's rural upstate New York farm in 1969. Originally conceived as the mother of all rock festivals, its original promoters probably had no idea at the time of the cultural and historical milestone it would eventually become.

As things turned out, the three day event drew upwards of half a million people to watch the top rock bands of the day ranging from Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, to the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. As chaotic as the event was seen at the time, over the years it has since come to symbolize one of the defining events of the sixties generation.

As rock festivals go, Woodstock remains the standard by which all others — from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo — are measured to this day.

Woodstock, on its way to making the careers of rock bands like Santana and Sly And The Family Stone — before making history as a groundbreaking event in it's own right — went on to become the source of an Academy Award winning documentary film, as well as several attempts to recreate the original magic with subsequent events to varying degrees of success.

For bloggers looking to rekindle their Woodstock memories or otherwise, probably the best current source to do so is Woodstock.com.

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• Open letter to Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post

  
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• GPYOW + Budz.A picture from the garlic festival where Vinny,...

  
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• Taking Woodstock (2009)

  
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  Taking Woodstock is Ang Lee ’s newest movie, starring Demetri Martin , Imelda Staunton , Emile Hirsch , Jeffrey Dean Morgan ,  Liev Schreiber and Paul Dano . Plot: Taking Woodstock is based on the real life story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an out of luck interior designer who has to move back to his ...
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• Up and Marley & Me Among Dog Movie Winners

  
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• Post Hullaballoo: Artist to Speak on Protesting, Participatory Media

  
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  Well this guy’s lecture worked out real well, timing-wise. Mark Tribe (killer name, Mark Tribe) is an artist and professor at Brown University. He’ll be talking about participatory media in protests (i.e taking video and putting clips on YouTube , on the quick) and how it has changed the public sphere. ...
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• woodstock: “i wish i knew natalie portman” + music video from k-os

  
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• No Thanks, Turkey Day.

  
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• Signing at Hometown Bookstore

  
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  The Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock, NY. Photo courtesy of shoutingthomas.typepad.com. When I was a tween and a teenager I was obsessed with a few things (particular music, particular poets, particular boys), but the biggest obsession had to be books. I never left home without one. In my household, being ...
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• Semi- detached

  
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• A/C: Global Rhythms, Studs Terkel and the FBI, Marisa Wegrzyn

  
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• Review: Taking Woodstock - An entertaining trip

  
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