The Morning Sun

Walker: Woodstock and hippies in perspective

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essays ...
AOL

Woodstock revisited: whatever happened to the hippie dream?

In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on ...
Digital Journal

‘Don’t take the brown antacid’: aging hippies flash back to Woodstock

Fifty years ago Thursday Les Poinelli was hitch-hiking to the now storied Woodstock music festival he'd heard about on the radio -- and hopped in the car where he would meet his wife. Today he's ...
Los Angeles Times

Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie?

Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective ...
Yahoo

A New Woodstock Doc Offers a Hippie Nostalgia Trip. But It's Time to Think More Critically About the Festival

What was it like to be at Woodstock? It’s a question that attendees have been fielding since Graham Nash regaled then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell (who’d been stuck in New York City that weekend ...
Digital Journal

Woodstock, pinnacle of the hippie dream, turns 50

A freewheeling weekend of indulgence. A New York farm transformed by idealistic youths into a mid-size city. A celebration of rock music and utopian ideals. Woodstock was many things but one thing ...