(How Woodstock Happened, n.d.) News began to travel fast of this incredibly large festival. Just four days prior to this authentic show down there was an estimated 50,000 people waiting close to the stage. Because of the massive group that showed before the event took place the four organizers; Roberts, Rosenman, Kornfeld and Lang were unwillingly forced to make the concert free. Once the word got out about the free concert, cops turned
Over the next 80 years, the Hudson River School grew to include about 100 painters! The school became widely recognized as the first truly national style of art. The artists focused on American scenery, and expressed their own ideas, spirit, and beliefs through the color, light, and perspective. These painters began a new artistic tradition by making the focus of their paintings natural scenery around them. Contributions Made to Colonial America: Artists founded new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world.
The beginning of the movie shows how Elliot Tiber brings the creators of Woodstock to their town, to check if they can have the concert there. When the news hits that it will be in his town on Max Yasgur’s farm the hippies start to flock in the area. On Wednesday, August 13, 1969 there were 60,000 people that showed up on the big open farm in front of the 75-foot stage. Then on Friday the streets and nearest highway were blocked by people parking their cars and walking to the concert. At this point there were 500,000 people at the concert and bands had to be flown in by helicopter (About Woodstock 1969).
Michael Lang was in charge of Woodstock; including gathering all the musicians such as, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater, Canned Heat, The Who, and Crosby Stills and Nash. Santana and Joe Cocker actually weren’t known very well until Woodstock. Woodstock started on a Friday, and it was a huge success. When it was Saturday, a huge storm hit Woodstock. Then the whole farm was covered in mud.
John Lennon wrote over 70 of the songs by himself, including A Hard Days Night, Let It Be, All You need is love, Come Together, and I Am the Walrus. An article published at entertainmentworld.com states that Ed Sullivan, host of a popular television variety show, first encountered The Beatles in October of 1963 while traveling on a Pan Am flight from New York to London. Sullivan’s flight was delayed for two hours due to thousands of fans waiting for the arrival of the Beatles from their first European tour. Amazed at the chaos caused by a group that he had never heard of, Sullivan decided that he had to have them on his show. According to The BBC History of Popular Music.
Tickets bought three days in advance were $18, the price at the gate was $24. Woodstock began at exactly 5:07 pm on Friday August 15, 1969. Richie Havens began the festival with “Minstel From Gault Q”. My mom and dad were 2 of about 400,000 people that came on to the 600 acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel, NY that day. My mom says Yasgur should of offered his farm up for the sake of the cause but in
“These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter”(Gladwell 1). He is right, all the sit-ins that started in Greensboro all started without the help of emailing, Facebook, or Twitter, but it started due to strong ties. And yes, Gladwell is right that these strong ties between friends was the essential motivation to actually go through with their plan. Within a week, sit-ins had spread all over the south , and once again it did it with out social networking, and it was the strong ties of the Greensboro sit-ins that helped transform the weak ties from all the other cities to strong
This controversy continued throughout the 60’s. The latter part of that decade brought “The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair” referred to as “An Aquarian Exposition, Three Days of Peace and Music” (qtd. in “World,” par 1). Held on a dairy farm in the Catskills in Aug. 1969 it faced many adversities, yet managed to remain calm and non-violent. Twenty-five of the world’s top performed on the bill; 400,000 young people attended the massively ill prepared, and grossly under supplied festival.
I will be working with a rodeo theme this new school year. We will make the class and most activities a rodeo style of cowboys and cowgirls. In our very small town of Kaplanville, we are the county seat. Our schools close for our yearly one week long Kaplan Festival. We have the parade festival on that Friday and there is no school for the children.
That night we arrived at Benning after 14 long, grueling hours on a greyhound bus. We step off and of course there was nobody around except one Black hat (instructor) he said two things; one here is your room and be ready for week one, Ground Week, on Monday morning. The first week, Ground Week, was intense. I was drenched in sweat from 4AM to 6PM, we did a PT (physical training) test right off the bat 0400 that Monday I smoked it of course. After that we spent the day in processing which is always the boring part I thought, not this time if we weren’t busy we were doing PT.