By Ken Newton, News-Press NOW|Aug 15, 2019
For a 17-year-old devoted to music, a week or two from heading to college, the allure proved too great to ignore. Less than 100 miles from his doorstep, the royalty of rock would convene.
Ditching his summer job early, the teenager answered this call, a decision about which he remains grateful.
“I had no idea that this was going to turn into some kind of cultural watershed moment,” Dr. Daniel Trifan [professor emeritus of history] says now. “All we knew is this was going to be the rock concert to top everything.”
That was Woodstock, billed as “three days of peace and music.” It began 50 years ago today.
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