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A couple sleeping on a car hood amid the endless traffic and crowds heading to Woodstock, 1969

Woodstock, 1969.

August 1969. Half a million people find a muddy field in upstate New York and accidentally make history. The moon landing. The Vietnam War. A counterculture that thinks it can change everything, and for three days actually does. Rain, haze, an impossible crowd, music that defined a generation.

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