Bethel News

The Summer of '69 -- the summer of men on the moon and Woodstock -- that's the summer I remember.

Love in 1969: Nick and Bobbi Ercoline were immortalized on the cover of the original 'Woodstock' album in 1970, as well as on the movie poster.

Judith Tucker, of Danbury, holds a special edition of Life magazine published after Woodstock.

The Town Board has unanimously adopted a new zoning ordinance after a two-year period of meetings, public comments and revisions, Supervisor Daniel Sturm said.

It was an incredible year in which the impossible seemed possible. It was 1969, the year the New York Jets stunned the sports world by defeating the Baltimore Colts to become the first American Football League team to win the Super Bowl.

The Liberty Chamber of Commerce has everything set for its 16th annual Fourth of July Parade Festival from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 4 on Main Street.

Talking about Woodstock is like talking about the Second World War," says Graham Nash, whose recall of the three-day festival which defined the hippie dream for decades, gives the lie to the adage that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there.

Peace and love will last a lot longer than three days at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which is celebrating Woodstock's 40th anniversary with a new exhibit.

Big V Entertainment is offering park-and-ride service to and from events at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts all summer long.

Pete Fornatale, a DJ on WFUV in New York City, will be at The Museum at Bethel Woods July 21 read from his new book, 'Back To The Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How it Changed a Generation.' Fornatele's appearance at Bethel Woods, on the site of the original Woodstock concert, will also feature audio clips of his Woodstock interviews, as well ...

Do you remember if you were at Woodstock? Was it a stone cold groove or a soggy, crowded mass freakout? For a story on the upcoming 40th anniversary of the iconic rockfest that became a highwater mark for the counter-culture, Lohud.com and The Journal News are looking for Westchester, Rockland and Putnam residents who attended the "gathering of the ...

This is an excerpt of a story written by Times Herald-Record staff and first printed in 1989 that describes how the Woodstock festival came together.

May 29, 1969: 'Crosby, Stills & Nash' is released. It is popular on both AM and FM radio, and it hangs on the album chart for 107 weeks.

Who can forget the Port-O-San man ... or the warning about the "brown acid" ... or Arlo Guthrie's giddy pronouncement: "The New York State Thruway is closed, man!"?They're back, along with a whole lot more, in the newly released "40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" of the film "Woodstock," the Academy-award-winning documentary about the ...

Legendary musical acts Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago teamed up to entertain thousands at Sullivan County's Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Sunday.

New Tunes On Monday : Woodstock, Woodstock Two, The Woodstock Experience, Woodstock the DVD, Woodstock the Website... If you work in NYC's Herald Square and commute from Penn Station, or if you're a tourist or a Macy's shopper, you can't avoid Robert Altman's Summer of Love photography that has been heavily incorporated into the store's retro ...

'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut' - Warner Home Video Stories Glenn Erickson , Jun 10, 2009 Cultural pundits since Spiro Agnew have been citing The Woodstock Festival as some kind of test for flower-power phonies, with the ultimate anti-hippie slur being that anybody one meets who claims to have been there is a liar.

John and Yoko hung out in their pajamas for eight days during their "bed-in" at a Montreal hotel in 1969.

Baby Boomers may find it hard to believe that four decades have passed since Woodstock transformed a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., into the epicenter of hippie culture.

A documentary classic, "Woodstock: 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" ," and an absorbing Clint Eastwood film, "Gran Torino" , lead this week's new Blu-ray releases.