Modern Era · North America · Culture
1969
Woodstock
August 15, 1969
Half a million young people descended on a dairy farm in upstate New York for three days of music and mud. Hendrix played the Star-Spangled Banner at dawn to whoever was still conscious. It was chaotic, generous, and soggy. Within a year the counterculture would curdle at Altamont and Kent State, but the image of Woodstock held.
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