Bethel

August 15 2016

We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to Woodstock

Catskills Region Bethel, Catskills Region, Sullivan County

by Chris Clemens When Michael Lang first created the idea for a music festival in the quaint, artist-retreat town of Woodstock, New York, it was a simple concept. Just weeks before the festival was to take place, the townspeople panicked at the thought of accommodating such a huge crowd. They subsequently blocked the producers from allowing […]

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