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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.
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.
Nite
Shipslog
PS
Thanks
for reading this stuff. I especially like the comments of course, so THANKS for
the latest great comments. ;-)
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6 comments:
I knew yall had a hippie soul. Fun and interesting post. I didnt know the Walton house was still around.
Lisa
I lived in northern NJ growing up and so wasn't so far from Woodstock. I was 18 and my parents wouldn't let me go. I'm glad they didn't!!!
Good for y'all! I remember mostly being not exactly appalled but put off by the images coming out of Woodstock. A real 'square' even in my youth, lol. Now, while I can allow Joplin was probably talented -- I still prefer not to listen.
I knew Woodstock was going on - I didn't know it wasn't actually in Woodstock. I remember that song too.
I also know that the Walton's - one of my favorite shows - house was still there.
I have never seen any of that in person though. Must be nice.
Oh my, I so wanted to go to Woodstock but Mom said "NO WAY!" I saw the movie of it and had to be grateful I missed it in person! Now, visiting the Walton house would be more my thing! You've been all around and back again my friend! Have a nice weekend. I hope it's warm by you. We're getting into the 20's and maybe even the 30's this weekend. Break out the flip flops! ha!
Hi Jack! I logged into my old account on AOL to keep it active and visited my old blogs (only visible to me I believe now). And I wanted to see if any of the people I used to follow still blogged and YOU DO! So I wanted to say Hi. I only check my email on here about every 90 days. But just had to say hello! I think we are friends on Facebook though. I just don’t post there often. I recently retired and have a video channel on YouTube called Less Hustle More Coffee. Come visit. :-)
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