ar, farking out, man!
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12 responses to “Woodstock Nation”
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a pure grin reading about your memories of that time and place.
thanks, Peter!
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Well done, Peter. I wasn't there & wouldn't have wanted to go. But I truly enjoyed your short retelling of your experiences at Woodstock.
TMT
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I was at the ferry terminal in Vineyard Haven, near where we kept the boat. Some People I knew invited me to go with them, but I went sailing instead.
RH
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Peter, you wild rebel, you! I can't believe you paid the $20 bucks to get in! Here's the million-dollar question: Did you meet any hippie chicks?
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Yeah Jim,
Paying that $20 was one of the duymbest things I have ever done. My companions thought so, too.
As for hippie chicks, no I did not meet anyway. But watching them in action in full view of half a million people let me believe that I knew them very well. Details on request.
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I love the direction your new blog is taking…prosperous, sustainable, eco living in VA.
Kudos!!
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Star Woman,
You sound like Mother Superior here. Can't we take a break from the serious policy wonking (if not wanking) and enjoy Woodstock just for a few minutes?Peter Galuszka
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EMR has been planning to get this up for a few days and perhaps it will make Star Womansprit feel better.
As summer was winding down 40 years ago EMR lived just three counties away from Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel. We heard a lot about Woodstock before, during and after the event (‘before’ because of the controversy over naming / moving the venue).
At the time EMR was too busy to pay much attention. He was wrapping up reports on The Future of the Adirondacks and the revision of New York State’s land use control legislation (21 Syracuse Law Review 2, Winter 1969) as well as preparing for the first of three years as a full time professor of planning.
EMR learned a lot about Woodstock and its aftermath once the school year started. Well over half the students in every class (undergrad architects and grad students in Urban / Environmental Studies – Yes EMR was teaching THAT in 1969 in an old line and well respected ‘Technological University’) had been there, some as organizers. They were keeping a low profile since no one yet knew what the eventual fallout from ‘participation’ would be. But the whole tenor of the educational experience changed.
EMR had been a participant / observer / facilitator-of-what-happened-after the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in 1964 (our second year of law school) and had been a leader in the death of in loco parentis at universities in the West in the late 50s but that was nothing like the class rooms filled with Woodstockers in the Fall of 1969.
We all survived and in 1979 Published “10 Ideas for the 80s.”
Among them was a proposal for nation-wide free, universal health and youth physical education / sports paid for by taxing and taking some of the profits from legalized recreational drugs (in addition to alcohol, nicotine and caffeine.)That proposal – which still makes more sense than what is being kicked around now – was informed in part by the experience with the Woodstockers. Also in the package was the application of Telework as a way to jump-start evolution of more functional human settlement patterns.
The MainStream Media is now full of Woodstock Remembered material so congrats to Peter for getting there first – even if the picture is revolting. For those interested in Woodstock Trivia and Fallout, the Sunday 9 August WaPo’s Outlook section is a mother lode – especially the Five Myths about High Times in America.
Feel better now Star?
EMR
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Question for E M Risse:
"Also in the package was the application of Telework as a way to jump-start evolution of more functional human settlement patterns."
Huh?
Doesn't Telework facilitate living anywhere you want no matter how scattered and remote?
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NEMR:
"Huh?
"Doesn't Telework facilitate living anywhere you want no matter how scattered and remote?"
Surely you gest!
Telework does not work well for scattered and remote. Very few apply Telework for long periods of time to overcome locational dysfunction. Check the data.
Telework's best application is to attract Lone Eagles who can in turn attract others, mentor students who stay or come back and in other wasy create Critical Mass in places that have the potential to evolve to become Balanced components of human settlement.
EMR
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I'm researching for a 60's music project and i came upon this. i have one thing to say :
You are so lucky.
i wasn't even born then but i wish i was. i love your story. nicee:D
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