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 ...

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...

His death from complications of Parkinson’s disease was reported by his wife of 43 years.

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 backwards, ...

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 attendees ...

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 ...

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 is ...

Michael Lang rode his motorcycle over to Elliott Landy’s house on Jones Quarry Road in Woodstock, N.Y., the town both men were residing in at the time. "And he said to me, 'I'm producing a concert. Do ...

They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. This week lots of people are trying to remember Woodstock, the legendary music festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 50 years ago. I was there, ...

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 preparing ...

Hiking on a hillside above the little hamlet, the wealthy Englishman finally settled on a spot for his arts and crafts colony. Ground was broken on the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in 1902. So began a ...