Woodstock Festival 40th Anniversary
July 21, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Rants & Raves
It was Summer 1969…I was 12 years old, at Summer camp in New Hampshire and a few weeks after the excitement of Apollo 11, I was looking at something almost as amazing…over 300,000 people at a farm in Bethel, New York celebrating 3 days of music…it was incredible…and while I wish I could have been there it was an unforgettable few days…especially for us boomers!
Happy 40th birthday Woodstock baby, if you exist
by Michael Hill,Associated Press Writer
Friday July 17, 2009
BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Welcome to middle age, Woodstock Baby — if you’re really out there.
The babies reportedly born at the Woodstock festival 40 years ago remain the most enduring mystery from that chaotic weekend that defined a generation. Depending on the source, there was one birth on that patch of upstate New York farmland between Aug. 15-17, 1969. Or two. Or three. Or none.
There is some tantalizing evidence. Singer John Sebastian is captured on film announcing that some cat’s old lady just had a baby, a kid destined to be far out. A couple of surviving eyewitnesses say there were births. The concert’s medical director told reporters at the scene there were two births: one at a local hospital after the mother was flown out by helicopter; the other in a car caught in the epic traffic jam outside the site crowded with more than 400,000 people.
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