The Anniversary of Woodstock - Travel via the Music

"How are you going to get there? I asked innocently. "Plane? Car? Train?"

"No," the Summer of '60 Survivor replied. "I'm going to get there through the music."

A friend of Memorable Moments was traveling on her way to Woodstock, New York. She was returning... to remember. It had been forty years. She was 25 when the concert of all concerts took place. And today, at 65, she still seeks music and experiences that can transport her to a place of peace and love. Woodstock was the location then, but the desired destination was "harmonious peace." The mode of transportation for all who visited Woodstock was "music."

The music of the late 1960's was filled with expression. It told stories and provided a palette on which artists wrote their true feelings of love and hate, joy and sadness, fear and hope. Some were threatened by it because it was different and radical. No matter... it was real.

The Woodstock Music Festival is listed as one of Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changes the History of Rock and Roll. It was three days of "moments" in August of 1969... moments that changed the world.

This month take a journey via the music and make some more moments to remember.
There is also a new film premiering this week by Director Ang Lee called
"Taking Woodstock." Based on a true story, the film chronicles how a man working at his parent's motel in the Catskills helped set the concert in motion.