In August 1969 -- a time of cultural upheaval more tangibly disruptive than that of the current day -- more than 400,000 people and 32 musical acts found their way to a dairy farm in New York for "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music." The event, which would become known in the American vernacular as Woodstock, was a legendary failure -- which is to say, a failure that became a legend.
The location was settled late in the planning process. Roads clogged with traffic. Grounds got mudd
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