A Day in the Garden: Woodstock Revisited
Richard Younger, Midtown Resident, Summer 1998
It took 29 years, but on Saturday, Aug. 15, I finally made it back for "A Day in the Garden". What attracted me to the day-long concert on the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York, was the same thing that lured me and about half-a-million other young people there in 1969: the music.
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