Sex, drugs, rock and politics: Woodstock festival gets a museum

[Kadie]

Sex, drugs, rock and politics: Woodstock festival gets a museum
by Paola Messana
12 minutes ago


BETHEL WOODS, New York (AFP) - The spasm of sex, drugs, rock music and politics that was the historic 1969 Woodstock festival has spawned a museum in tribute to the birthplace of US counterculture.

A half-million "hippies" turned out in the small farming village of Woodstock, north of New York City, to enjoy music performances by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

Now comes the Museum at Bethel Woods, located not in Woodstock but Bethel Woods, a country drive from the former farm swarmed 40 years ago by thousands of fans -- some naked, some drugged -- sharing free music and free love.

The multimedia museum, on a 240-hectare (593-acre) farm, is a brainchild of Alan Gerry, who made his fortune in the local cable television business.

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Duke Devlin, a Woodstock festival attendee who came from Texas in 1969 and never left, poses on the field where the 1969 Woodstock music festival took place at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, in Bethel, New York. The spasm of sex, drugs, rock music and politics that was the historic 1969 Woodstock festival has spawned a museum in tribute to the birthplace of US counterculture.
(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)


Musician Richie Havens, who performed first at the Woodstock music festival, poses in front of a Hippies "Magic Bus" replica at "The Story of the Sixties and Woodstock" at the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The spasm of sex, drugs, rock music and politics that was the historic 1969 Woodstock festival has spawned a museum in tribute to the birthplace of US counterculture.
(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)


Visitors walk through "The Story of the Sixties and Woodstock" at the Museum at Bethel Woods, north of New York City on May 28. The museum explores the experience of the 1969 Woodstock festival via photos, artifacts and multi-media exhibits.
(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)


Paul Heim, an exhibit technician, watches a video at The Museum at Bethel Woods in Bethel, N.Y., Thursday, May 15, 2008. The museum opens June 2 on the site of the old dairy farm northwest of New York City that was trampled under by some 400,000 people on the wet weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969. The museum, part of a $100 million music and arts center here, aims to tell the story of Woodstock. Mocked as a 'hippie museum' by conservatives recently, the exhibits actually give a thorough look at the generation-defining concert and the noisy decade that led up to it.
(AP Photo/Mike Groll)


The Museum at Bethel Woods is seen in Bethel, N.Y., Thursday, May 15, 2008. The museum opens June 2 on the site of the old dairy farm northwest of New York City that was trampled under by some 400,000 people on the wet weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969. The museum, part of a $100 million music and arts center here, aims to tell the story of Woodstock. Mocked as a 'hippie museum' by conservatives recently, the exhibits actually give a thorough look at the generation-defining concert and the noisy decade that led up to it.
(AP Photo/Mike Groll)


A bus is on display at The Museum at Bethel Woods in Bethel, N.Y., Thursday, May 15, 2008. The museum opens June 2 on the site of the old dairy farm northwest of New York City that was trampled under by some 400,000 people on the wet weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969. The museum, part of a $100 million music and arts center here, aims to tell the story of Woodstock. Mocked as a 'hippie museum' by conservatives recently, the exhibits actually give a thorough look at the generation-defining concert and the noisy decade that led up to it.
(AP Photo/Mike Groll)

[kickysnana]

1. This is so wrong (unclear on the concept)...rolling in their graves... n/t