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“Hundreds of Acres to Roam On” -
That was the catchphrase in the original Woodstock advertisement. It’s our hope that we have provided, exactly that, for you
through our web pages. Our objective, for this website, is that everyone
who visits, leave with a “little something” -
maybe a sparked interest, a rekindled memory, or an
assurance in knowing that ordinary people can make a difference.
It is our way of preserving the legacy of “Woodstock.”
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sign our guest book. We
welcome your thoughts and comments.
Thanks for stopping by, and please come again, soon!
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Subj: Woodstock 69'
Date: 10/20/2006 1:43:11 PM Eastern Standard Time
Peace, Love and Togetherness
Rock On
Subj: WOODSTOCK
Date: 10/21/2006 8:10:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
I was born in 1961 in Auztralia so I never made it to Woodstock. It would have heaven to me,as I'm listening to Jefferson Airplane now I would have loved to hear their "Morning maniac music" The revolution aint over yet.Love and peace (still) May love and peace be within you and around you always and the stars of freedom shine forever in your mind.
Date: 12/27/2006 2:20:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
Hello and Happy New Year from the City by the Bay, San Fran!
Recently I met Wavy Gravy in the course of my work. What a wonderful
and free spirit and what a treat to meet someone who has given back
to the world more than he has taken. "...breakfast in bed for
300,000..."
When I asked my Mom if I could go to Woodstock she said yes. I was
thrilled and a little surprised. 'Thing is, I had no money at 15
yrs. old, so I told her that my good friend Nick and I were going to
hitchhike. She went ballistic.
'Short version, I watched the concert when it came to the local drive
in theater a couple years later. Bummer.
Silly me...I'd probably have taken the brown acid . . .
Subj: Woodstock Historians
Date: 2/1/2007 9:21:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Claire
To: Joann1108@aol.com
This website was immensely helpful in assisting me in writing a speech about
the culture of Woodstock. I emailed Joanne about contacting some of the
Woodstock Historians about information and she responded to me that night! I
sent a list of interview questions and many of the Historians responded
within a couple of days. Their insight and stories were abundantly helpful
and I got an awesome grade on my speech and I know that it would not have
been even half as good without their help. Thank you all so much! I loved
hearing about all of your individual experiences and views. Your insights
have changed the way I look at the Festival itself as well as what was
obviously a very special time in America's history.
Thank you again!
Claire
Subj: Archives Website
Date: 3/15/2007 4:30:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: stephenjsullivan@verizon.net
To: Joann1108@aol.com
II
would
have been in the middle of that multitude but a couple of days before we were to
leave my band caught a gig at a festival in the midwest. If I had known it would
be the epitome of all outdoor rock festivals, I would have gone anyway. God, I
miss the 60's!!!!!!!!!!!
Of
course you can use my name - who knows, maybe another old fart rock'n'roller
will remember me. An interesting side note - a few years
ago I ran into someone who had been at Woodstock and she was wondering if the 2
hits of Owsley she kept as a souvenir would be any good after all that time.
I never did find out ------?
Peace!
Steve
Sullivan
PS:
WOW, the web site is fantastic!
Subj: hey
Date: 4/14/2007 8:59:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Mark
To: Joann1108
great site -MARK
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6/3/2007 4:59:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Yo awesome site!! Keep Rockin'!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace!
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6/3/2007 5:02:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
your site rocks!!!!!!
Date: 6/11/2007 7:25:22 PM Eastern Daylight
Time
Hi guys -
This is a fine website and a fine cause. I visited the site this weekend
and was extremely moved by it. I fully support its preservation without
alteration in any way.
With warm regards
Nicholas
Subj: PRESERVE THE SITE
Date: 6/20/2007 10:05:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time
WE HAVE MEMORIALS TO WAR - ONE FOR "PEACE" IS A REASONABLE REQUEST.
JEFFREY SMYTHE
Subj: Guest Book
Date: 8/5/2007 7:20:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Great site.
Subj: hi
Date: 9/9/2007 11:09:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time
HI id just like to say what a brilliant site
although i wasnt born till 1969 i got caught in the 60's revival back here
in the uk in 1979-1987
and just love the flower power era and artists alike
i often wondered what i would have been like to have been to such a life
changing concert as woodstock, or monterey etc but the closest i
got was
going to glastonbury in 1997 when it absolutely poured down but the
companionship ,the free love and blue haze continued unabated it was then
that i could only imagine what it was like and loved evry minute of it
keep up the good work
yours under the stars
shane
Subj: thank you for the news on the Woodstock site
Date: 10/18/2007 11:38:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Although I’m in California now, not NY, and haven’t been back to Bethel since the 1999 reunion, I’m still very interested. I hope the new plan for development doesn’t overwhelm the historical and spiritual significance of the site.
Thanks for giving me some news and being a voice in Bethel.
rob
Date: 12/31/07 8:19:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Just wanted to sign the guest book. I remember like it was yesterday.
Subject: Guestbook
Date: 1/18/2008 11:44:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
Greetings,
Wonderful work you're doing.
Keep the faith.
Donna
Subject: Guestbook
Date: 1/21/2008 5:15:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
please enter my name as a person
who cares Michael Nerling Stowe
Subject: Woodstock - Preservation Archives
guestbook
Date: 2/2/2008 9:27:51 P.M.
Eastern Standard Time
Name Chris Cunningham
Age 39
website: http://www.myspace.com/woodstockmusicandartfair
comment: I hope to visit one day.
Date: 4/5/2008 5:40:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Sent from the Internet
Hello,i'm a big fan from germany.Like it! wish i was one of this people in
the past,must be some kind of heaven.....but i was only 6years old
1963...keep the spirit,greetings jurgen;)
Subject: Woodstock
Date: 4/17/2008
2:48:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Sent from the Internet
it was nice visiting this web site.
amit ranjan basu
kolkata,india
Subject: Great Site
Date: 4/28/2008 4:55:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Fantastic site. Keep up the good work, a site like this (the grassy one
not the cyber-one, although that is worthy too) must be preserved. It's
important for more than one generation.
-- Steve
Jimpress
P.O.Box 218
Warrington Cheshire WA5 2FG
England
steve@jimpress.co.uk
http://www.jimpress.co.uk
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SUBJECT: sign guestbook
Date: 6/27/08 10:02:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
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Hello,Thank you for all of your efforts to preserve the Woodstock
site.I've seen what they've constructed there and it goes against
everything woodstock stood for.Greed knows no boundries especially in
this age of cynicism.I'm reminded of Joni Mitchel's words "They took
all the trees and put them in a tree museum;and charged the people a
dollar and a half just to see them;Dont it always seem to go that you dont
know what you've got till its gone; They paved paradise,and put up a
parking lot".
PEACE,Dan.
Subject: I'm a buff
Date: 10/9/2008 10:56:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
My friends were there in 69. I always regretted not going, and kept
the spirit inside me. I finally went in 89 and in 2008. While I think
it's good that the Hill is preserved and not filled with condos, and
there is a museum at the top, it's not right that you can't go on the
field.
Peace,
Phil Lorenzo
Somerville, Massachusettes
Subject: My dad went to
Vietnam and enjoyed the fruits of Woodstock
Date: 10/16/2008
5:40:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
young adults today should be able to share this experience really feel
what it is like to live in "our so called free world" backthen
we were free now its all politics government debts and what movie star is
donating what to whom
Subject: BW Center
Date: 12/01/2008
3:00:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
I recieved an e-mail from the Bethel Woods Center about becoming a
"Friend" of the center. The cheapest is 75 bucks. I called the center
and asked if I bought a "Friends" membership, would I be able to walk
into the original site field just to get a feel for where I sat and
watched the concerts in '69 and of course the answer was NO! I talked
to a woman named Laurie who works in the dept. that took care of those
memberships. She was very nice and helpful and said she would mention
my request at their next meetings. Imagine that!....having to "pay" to
walk on that field! I will be contacting the Director of the Center to
see if we can do something about this.
All I'm talking about is a few moments to walk close to that spot on
the site, take a couple pics, have a few flashbacks, and leave without
a trace! JEEZE!...I guess I'm just a "terrorist". A
"terrorist-hippie"!!! I even promised not to bring a tent. Ya know, in
alot of ways...nothing has changed in America! And yet everything has
changed! We're just in a different "reality" level! Reading Plato's
"Republic" explains alot of how the "culture" works. Thats basically
the "society" we all live in...the BEEHIVE! Every BEE-ing in his or
her place! OH BEE-HIVE!....behave and stay in your
"politically-correct" box! The ex-teacher, John Gatto in his books,
"The Underground History of American Education" and "Weapons of Mass
Instruction" explain how Plato's "SYSTEM" works. Check-out John's
web-site for his work;
www. johntaylorgatto. com. The
REAL function of pedagogy is to train generations into subservient
obedience to the State! A LA Plato's "Republic"! Sciencetific
Management via Frederick Taylor and B. F. Skinner and the like. This
stuff is ANCIENT! "They blinded me with science".....remember Thomas
Dolby's song from the 80's. Boy! And what was Pink Floyd's "The Wall"
telling us? "Hey teacher....leave those kids alone.......we don't need
no THOUGHT-CONTROL! WOW!
Anyway, Joann, I'm sure that you are not
surprised by the Centers policies. "Facsist-Pigs"!!!!
Sincerely
Subject: Guest Book Entry
Date: 1/16/2009 9:12:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
To those that may have posted less than enthusiastic or indifferent
comments about the “specialness” of the Woodstock site……………….I say to
you, you just don’t “get it”. If you don’t understand the “spirit”
of
Woodstock……………….you
never will…………..and it can never be explained to you. Fortunately
that “spirit” does live on, and will never die. It wasn’t “just a
concert”. It was a spiritual experience that should have sent a
message to mankind…………… that human beings have the potential to do
better than they have over the centuries. To me, the spirit of
Woodstock was a brief glimmer of what this world could be…………..but
sadly, is not.
Great site. Good job
!!
Sent: 2/9/2009 8:58:54 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time
Welcome to your 4th decade Woodstock!
We love you!
Subj: Woodstock '69
Sent: 2/11/2009 9:33:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Glad 2 sign ur guest book. I was very much a part of that generation. I
have a personal radio station dedicated 2 artists who performed @
woodstock - that's on www.jango.com.
I am in touch with Artie Kornfeld & also listen 2 www.9412.com - the
classic rock station that never stops & plays almost all the soundtrack
songs from woodstock- regularly.
Rgds,
Clarantha Perera
The Rock Of Asia since 1963
Subj: Woodstock Project
Sent: 3/12/2009 9:23:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Hey Joanne..
Thank you for all the help. Im very greatfull.. Will you please send my
thanks to everybody? they've been a great help to me :)
Karen..
(A student from
Denmark)
Subj: woodstock guest
reg
Sent: 6/22/2009
9:10:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
A breath of life in a
mislead world a ray of sun in a ever darkening sky peace forever
michael nerling stowe
Subj:
Woodstock should have been preserved
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6/26/2009 2:28:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
If there is any way that further development can be stopped
and the area can
remain, as much as possible, the way it was in 1969; I would contribute my
efforts in any way possible. We changed the world forever, and there should be
a way for the coming generations to stand in the midst of the place that
embodies the universal change we made and feel the winds of change for the
future sweep over them.
Kathleen A. Ellis, Ph.D.
Subj:
Sent: 8/13/2009
1:36:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
I support your cause , and I agree that "ordinary " people can
make a difference in a positive way , if their minds are open .The Woodstock
experience helped me to "SEE" .Thank you for fighting the good
fight. Peace
Subj: Just
Spectacular
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8/22/2009 12:31:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
This site is
spectacular and however I was only six in 1969 however a few years later
when I understood the events of the time I thank all that attended and all
that have preserved everything. If something of that magnatude could only
happen again in this day and age this country and the world would be a far
better place, I can only pray it happens and PEACE and LOVE are the
outcome.
Thank Everyone Past And Present For The Gift Of A Lifetime
Todd Grover
Subj: wish I was there
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8/28/2009 11:43:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
i was only 4 during woodstock but i read all i can about it and i wish i
could've been there i think woodstock inspired many others im from illinois
and the campus of illinois has a week long party every year . i wish all of
you luck and would love to meet all the people that was there if
posible keep on partying
Subj:
Woodstock 1969
Sent:
4/11/2010 10:46:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
I just want to
sign the quest book of memories that rocked the world.
Richard F. Sindelar
Subj: All Sent:
8/2/2010 5:52:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time all
i know is , i was born in 71 and ive spent my whole life feeling like i missed
it, i just dont fit in in these times hahah
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