Woodstock

Most of the time, BoomerCafé focuses on what our generation is doing today. But Joanne Hague is focusing right now on what we did yesterday … or more to the point, forty years ago. She’s looking for help to mark a milestone that helped shape the leading edge of the baby boomer generation. She’s rediscovering the past, at Woodstock.

Undoubtedly, if I had been just a couple of years older in the summer of 1969, I would have found my way to Bethel, New York. Woodstock, one of the greatest events of all times, was happening a mere 60 miles from where I lived. I remember watching the news reports with my mom, and her being aghast at what we were seeing. But me, I wished I was there.

A few years later, I married. Had my children, had my life … and Woodstock was something that I never thought about after those days. Until 1994. That’s when my children and I attended a festival in Bethel, and I realized exactly where I was.

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