These are some of the few hundred thousand persons who attended the gigantic rock festival at Woodstock, N.Y. on Aug. 14, 1969. Woodstock Festival of Arts and Music at Bethel, New York, August 1969.

About 450,000 people flocked to Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1969, to celebrate three days of peace, love and music at the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair, replete with ...

While he was “honored and thrilled to be part of Woodstock,” 50 years ago this month, Max Furek of Mocanaqua says another music event that took place in August 1969 — the Atlantic City Pop Festival — ...

What a smile--two kids in blue--torn jeans, old leather camera bag, blue midriff t-shirt, long hair, amazing smile, at the Woodstock music festival, August 1969. Psylvia, dressed in a pink Indian ...

Close to a half million people attended the three-day “Aquarian Exposition” in August 1969 that is held up as the peak of the anti-war activist movement of the 1960s. Many of them resettled in the ...

On Aug. 15, 1969, some 460,000 people began descending on a dairy farm in Sullivan County for what was billed as an “Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” and is now best known, simply, as ...

Decade-defining performances like Jimi Hendrix's rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' took place during the original festival in August 1969 Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features ...

Fifty years ago, nearly half a million people convened at Max Yasgur‘s farm in Bethel, New York, for the first Woodstock Arts & Music Festival in August 1969. Billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: Three ...

On a mid-August weekend in 1969, more than 400,000 like-minded souls flocked to a dairy farm in upstate New York. It was Woodstock, a singular event that inspired an era of music and culture.

Stephen Stills (left) and David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform at Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. It's been over five decades since the ...