Fifty-five years after the fact, it should be clear to anyone who is paying attention that the Woodstock Festival that took place in the town of Bethel, NY, in August of 1969 was larger than life. It was also one of the best things to ever happen to Sullivan County.
One of the festival’s organizers and its main financial backer, John Roberts, once described Woodstock as “a coincidence” that resulted from the convergence of “many powerful trends.” Others, he said, decided it was “a phenomenon.” Being assigned that status, he admitted, was comforting, because it absolved the organizers of their failings and gave them “a sense of having participated in something larger than life.”
Still, for many in Sullivan County, laws could not be enacted quickly enough to ensure that a similar event would never take place here.
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