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The Woodstock Festival (originally the ''Woodstock Music and Art Fair'') took place August 15-18, 1969 in the town of Bethel New York (outside of White Lake). The Festival was marked by widespread drug use, fornication, and denial of reality, as well as a search for a better one. The concert was peaceful, with rain storms, mud, hunger and insufficient toilets and shelter adding to the wilderness type experience for the crowd of mainly middle class youth. On the positive side, Time Magazine marveled at “the agape-like sharing of food and shelter by total strangers,”<ref>Time, Aug. 29, 1969</ref>  

The Woodstock Festival (originally the ''Woodstock Music and Art Fair'') took place August 15-18, 1969 in the town of Bethel New York (outside of White Lake). The Festival was marked by widespread drug use, fornication, and denial of reality, as well as a search for a better one. The concert was peaceful, with rain storms, mud, hunger and insufficient toilets and shelter adding to the wilderness type experience for the crowd of mainly middle class youth. On the positive side, Time Magazine marveled at “the agape-like sharing of food and shelter by total strangers.”<ref>Time, Aug. 29, 1969</ref>  

The organizers had told Bethel officials that they were expecting only 50,000 people, though they thought the figure would be at least twice that, but nearly 500,000 people descended on the 600-acre dairy farm property of Max Yasgur to hear rock musicians such as [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Janis Joplin]] (both of whom later died from drug overdoses) and others.  

The organizers had told Bethel officials that they were expecting only 50,000 people, though they thought the figure would be at least twice that, but nearly 500,000 people descended on the 600-acre dairy farm property of Max Yasgur to hear rock musicians such as [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Janis Joplin]] (both of whom later died from drug overdoses) and others.