Is there anyone out there who actually attended the Woodstock Music Festival?

I worked with two people who attended, but both left before it ended. One was an undergrad at Johns Hopkins at the time, the other was going to William and Mary. They are both retired now.

@zenvelo did they know each other at the time or were they both just there and both left early?

Yup, we went from Hartford, CT.

My cousin who was twelve went with some people. I almost went but we opted out.

My stepfather went. I think he lived in Long Island at the time.

My aunt went. She said it was no big deal, being that it wasn’t a very far drive, and she was a teenager. It seemed like the thing to do.

A girl a few grades ahead of me in school was there at the age of 2. She didn’t remember it, she just knows her parents took her.

@rojo No, they didn’t know each other at the time. It came up in a conversation at a business dinner.

I was there in spirit only.

I wanted to – I was too young (or so my parents said) and I lived too far away; no transportation.

I didn’t find out about it until 1973.

I bought the album. It is as close as I got. still have it too, just no way to play it. I need to pull my turntable out of storage

I saw a documentary on it the other day. Wow. At one point there was this hippie girl kind of walking among the crowds, looking around, and she said, in awe, “Look at all the people!” At the same time Rick and I yelped, “IT’S JANICE!!!”
It was pretty cool.

I went to the big one the next year in Georgia, even though it was called the Atlanta Music Festival it was miles from Atlanta . My mother thought I was visiting friends at university. But no, I was somewhere I had no business being with my boyfriend and four other guys. What a weekend!!! Everything you heard about Woodstock was true at the Atlanta Rock Festival as well. I was so glad when we finally left. All of the guys were drunk/stoned so I had to drive. I was still in high school and had no idea how to get home. I saw a sign that mentioned a city in my state so I went that way. When they woke up they were surprised about where we were. To make things more interesting, one of them had a set of handcuffs and when we stopped to get gas, they handcuffed one of the guys to a road sign in the median of the highway. Oh God….................adults truly are miracles!!!