Tag: woodstock
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December 27, 2009 03:10 PM EST --
Woodstock's Dirty Secret
By LAURIE KIRBY
Today, Made-In-Woodstock components fly F-15s and F-16s and Apache attack helicopters over Iraq, rumble through Afghanistan in Bradley tanks, . . .
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August 11, 2009 10:39 PM EDT --
On August 15, 16 and 17, 1969, history was being made on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York when Max Yasgur leased his Alfalfa field for $75,000 to band manager Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld, a record . . .
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September 21, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
I was not at Woodstock, but my brother was. Woodstock was right near my parents' house in Sullivan County, New York. My brother lived in a tepee on Bob Dylan's land. He stole firewood . . .
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November 21, 2008 07:44 AM EST --
America is still Numero Uno as a nation. And this guy is still Numero Uno in my book. One of the greatest guitarists that ever lived. So have yourself a rockin good day America, Land of the free and home . . .
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June 27, 2006 06:15 AM EDT --
Good Grief, Charlie Brown, Snoopy's writing another mystery. Look at his typewriter, perched atop his doghouse.
Clack-clacking away.
"It was a dark and stormy night." Can't Snoopy . . .
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March 05, 2008 06:07 PM EST --
"There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings."
"Hey, what about this one for the . . .
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March 05, 2008 11:28 PM EST --
One thing about Sam, he wanted everyone to know he had been to Woodstock and would always start his spiel with: "There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, . . .
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July 01, 2009 01:24 PM EDT --
I took my sister and her family who are visiting to downtown Woodstock, IL. Woodstock is where the movie Ground Hog day was shot. They have a cute little square there surrounded by cute restaurants . . .
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July 03, 2009 08:41 AM EDT --
Downtown Woodstock, IL has many cool art horses on display. Meaning they are horses that have been painted by variou artists, in different themes.
Luckily I had my camera with me when we went to see . . .
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July 12, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
Here are more of the pictures we took when we were in Woodstock, IL last week. I love downtown Woodstock it is just so old fashioned and adorable. This is where they shot the movie Ground . . .
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July 19, 2009 10:07 PM EDT --
Who knew that 40 years ago, in the rain, huddled together under a blanket, a couple, tired and worn out, would make Rock & Roll history?
Well, Nick and Bobbi certainly did not. They were not even . . .
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August 08, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
The book is written by an assistant professor at a state medical university. With that in mind, the language leans towards that of a professor rather than a storyteller.
The story reminds me of . . .
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August 15, 2009 09:31 PM EDT --
I am pretty sure I have told this story before, but it seems appropriate on the 40 th anniversary of Woodstock.
Besides, I am now 60 and allowed to repeat myself.
Many years ago, probably . . .
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March 02, 2007 03:19 PM EST --
By Gary Geyer
The year was 1969... Howie and I felt old
We had gone to Woodstock as adults, not hippie kids. We had planned for the concert weeks in advance; we had tickets and a place . . .
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April 26, 2009 01:11 PM EDT --
I live in a small but rapidly growing suburb about an hour and a half away from Chicago, heading towards Wisconsin. Not much of historical significance has ever happened in my town, but since there . . .
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March 11, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It was the summer of '69 and I had flown home to Massachusetts from Alaska where I had been a Jesuit Volunteer. The previous winter I had spent at St. Mary's Mission as a high school teacher. . . .
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April 28, 2008 12:22 PM EDT --
Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He is the eldest son of America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody . . .
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August 03, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
Yesterday I attended the Newport Folk Festival at the Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. with Papa and Nick, my good friend from college. Thinking about Woodstock forty years ago, I thought . . .
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March 25, 2009 02:24 PM EDT --
Last night I wrote about going to nearby town and visiting the down town area and seeing a movie. We got there about an hour and half early and it was lunch time so we had planned to eat lunch . . .
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July 09, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
I have already shown photos of some of the art horses on display in Woodstock, IL . The horses are a part of the Main Stay Therapeutic Riding Program Carousel Horses charity program. . . .
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