In search of Woodstock, LOL

 

For today:

Sherry and I have never followed the music trends except on the side lines (and of course the 1950s Rock & Roll we smooched to!).  This morning, I was singing the two or three lines I know from One of Janice Joplin’s songs that goes:

O Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz,

 My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends, 

worked hard all my life Lord, no help from my friends,

 Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

I don't know why, but it brought up a discussion of the time we decided to visit  Woodstock.  LOL

We were in New York for some reason and decided to see Woodstock and that area.  You know, we heard so much while it happened and so much more AFTER the fact.  That was what we call the ‘tie-dyed’ Hippy times. So My map reader  guided us, Sherry was our GPS (before the real GPS). Most of our travels she rode with a map book on her lap. 

We drove through the quaint town. Still tye-dyed stuff on the streets for sale. We kept looking for signs to the site of the Great Woodstock Music Festival.  We found a nice older big theatre Woodstock Playhouse, or something like that; but NOTHING about what grew to be known as “WOODSTOCK!”.

After a fruitless search we stopped at a nice restaurant for lunch. We were served and I asked the waitress, “Where did the Big Woodstock Festival take place?”

She almost laughed, she did smile big, “Sir, that is 40 miles down the road near Bethel, it did not happen here at Woodstock, there was not enough room!”

Yeah, just dumb old folks. So, Sherry went back to her maps to get us down to Bethel.

On the way down I saw something that has always interested me, harness racing.  There was a good place to park and watch.  It was just two or three rigs exercising, but I had never seen it up close and personal. I got a kick out of it. Fun to me, I love horses.

I have learned more about Woodstock since our misguided trip than anytime before. Max attendance was 450,000 WOW. Genre: Folk, rock, blues, hard rock, Jazz, Latin, psychedelic rock, Southern rock and Jam Band.

 

Anyway, it was the most famous music themed happening in my lifetime.  We have learned somethings just by deciding to go and see. i.e. The Tea Party, Mount Vernon, 

The Mayflower II ship, Cape Cod, The home of the Waltons in Virgina, and many many more. 

They were all interesting.  Gypsies do this stuff. LOL

 

Nite Shipslog

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