......I realized that the world famous concert happening in 1969 actually took place in Bethel, New York.....not Woodstock. Doh! Nevertheless, my friend Laurie and I had a blast wandering around the quaint rural "downtown" area of Woodstock, New York in mid-October. Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Janis Joplin used to live here, and Levon Helm and David Bowie still do. Historic, picturesque, and just enough hippie kitsch ("Please Don't Squeeze The Shaman") to make the tourists happy. Local buskers added to the fall afternoon experience. Seems my faves The Black Crowes visited the largest hippie shop on the main drag a few months before I got there. I'm sure Chris got a kick out of it. I would have loved to have seen the gallery of famed rock photographer Elliot Landy, but it was closed by the time I arrived. However....I did get to Bethel. Stay tuned!
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