Article: Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: Woodstock memories, then and now.

Jonathan Mark
The Jewish Week
08-18-1994
Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: Woodstock memories, then and now..

JONATHAN MARK

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

At 4 in the morning, with the moon high over Kiamesha Lake in the Catskills, Ben, Michelle and Avi leave the Concord Hotel in a silver Volvo to find the old Woodstock festival site at Yasgur's Farm. The three, who were born five years after the 1969 event, do not have a map and drive east instead of west.

"We thought about going all the way to Boston," says Ben, "but we wanted to find the original site," which the three speak of as the hallowed ground, the Valley Forge, the three-day Jerusalem of rock.

Twenty-five years before, on the Thursday night of Aug. ...

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