Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices
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FILE - Music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, Aug. 16, 1969, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Music fans listen to the band Blood, Sweat and Tears play at a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2019. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)FILE - Visitors to the Museum at Bethel Woods view exhibits of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, June 14, 2018, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)Richard Schoellhorn, left, discusses his experience as a would-be security guard at the Woodstock festival in August 1969 with Rona Elliot, right, May 9, 2023, in San Francisco. Elliot helped Woodstock organizers put the haphazard event together and is now working as a community connector as part of the Museum at Bethel Woods effort to collect oral histories from people who were there. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)FILE - A portion of the hundreds of thousands of concert-goers who attended the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on a 600-acre pasture near Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1969. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969, as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo, File)Akinyele Sadiq discusses photos taken of the crowd near the stage of the Woodstock festival in August 1969, May 9, 2023, in San Francisco, before being interviewed by the curators for the Museum at Bethel Woods as part of an effort to collect oral histories from people who were there. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)Akinyele Sadiq discusses photos taken of the crowd near the stage of the Woodstock festival in August 1969, May 9, 2023, in San Francisco, before being interviewed by the curators for the Museum at Bethel Woods as part of an effort to collect oral histories from people who were there. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)FILE - Music fans seek shelter is a grass hut at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 17, 1969. The sign above reads "Have a Marijuana." (AP Photo, File)A view of the site where the Woodstock festival happened in August 1969, as seen from the Museum at Bethel Woods in Bethel, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)
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FILE - Music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, Aug. 16, 1969, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo, File)