but the original Woodstock succeeded more on dumb luck than on precise planning. After losing the planned site in Wallkill, New York a month before gates were scheduled to open, Lang famously drove by a field in Bethel, New York, owned by dairy farmer Max Yasgur, and Woodstock...
Michael Wadleigh assembled the three-hour 'Woodstock' out of the festival's "Three Days of Peace & Music," as it had been billed. From Richie Havens' improvised opener, "Freedom," to Jimi Hendrix's closing set, the film captured the music, drugs, rain, mud, politics and free love that...
- Location: Woodstock - Year built: 1892 In 1967, Laurance and Mary French Rockefeller purchased the dilapidated Woodstock Inn and set about restoring it. One of New England's earliest winter playgrounds, they constructed the hotel on the grounds of the former Eagle Hotel, which began life as...
17 ACC's 2004 ANNUAL MEETING THE NEW FACE OF IN-HOUSE COUNSEL In addition, FAST Enrollment Centers will be in place in the following locations by December 2003: • Woodstock, New Brunswick/Houlton, Maine • Stanstead (55), Quebec / Derby Line, Vermont • Emerson, Manitoba / Pembina,...
Santana's Woodstock-era emergence was keyed by a collaborative mixture of Latin-tinged rock styles. Later, Santana's core members scattered as the band's namesake guitarist took things in a jazzier direction. Carlos Santana then made a huge, guest-packed comeback in the late '90s, before get...