Essay On Woodstock

The festival included three days of drugs, music and nonviolence. Woodstock was a product of a partnership between John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang, they had the idea of three days of peace and music. It was originally going to be located in the town of Woodstock, New York, but was banned one month before it was going to happen. It took place seventy miles from its original destination in Bethel, New York on Max Yasgur's farm in Sullivan County, they owned around six hundred acres of land. The attendees were well behaved and the concert became a massive “love-in.” 1969 was the year that proved the world that half a million American youths could live together in unity and peace (Carlin). The festival goers shared food, liquor, and drugs, they also expressed their personal and artistic freedoms. There was not even reports of violence except for the people tearing down fences wanting to join the festival, “The event became
Potter stated, “Heavy rains dampered both soil and spirits at Woodstock” (15). The rain did not diminish the moods of the festival goers, it created a bond between them. The crowds banged cans together and sang “the sun’s comin.” There was a calming influence of hallucinogenic drugs, such as marijuana, acid (LSD), amphetamines, and heroin. The majority of the crowd used marijuana, many of the people that took LSD had “bad trips” and had to be sent for medical attention (Graves). There were only two deaths documented that weekend, one was a heroin overdose and the other was because a farmer did not see a boy in a sleeping bag and rolled over him in a tractor. Many people claimed that there were births at Woodstock, but there is no evidence of them actually happening. These three days of sex, drugs, and rock and roll gave people a hiatus, it took their minds off of the massacre that was going on thousands of miles