Three Days of Peace and Music: Woodstock

'Three Days of Peace and Music' is the alternative name of the Woodstock Festival, a three-day's concert, accompanied by a huge crowd of music lovers and rock'n roll. It was organized  by four youngsters; Joel Roseman — John Roberts, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang in 1969 (from August 15-18) at Max Yasgur's dairy farm, New York, USA.

Roberts came forward to be a young investor who wanted to initiate something that would double his fortune. Roseman joined this idea of Roberts' after which an ad followed in The New York Times about investing opportunities for 'young men.'

Woodstock Festival was a three days concert accompanied with
a huge crowd of lovers of music and rock'n roll.

Afterwards, the two young investors met Kornfeld and Lang. The original proposal by Kornfeld and Lang was to build a studio for rock musicians. To raise enough money  for covering studios expenses, they offered to organize a two-day rock concert. They found a location for the music festival in a park, not far from Wallkill, New York.

It was a wrong choice of location for the festival, as the Wallkill inhabitants wouldn't afford dozens of drugged-out young hippies flowing nearby Wallkill. Moreover, in 1969, 2nd July the inhabitants of the Wallkill town succeeded to have the municipality to pass a law banning the organization of the event in their city.

The situation was despairing for the Woodstock festival attendees, who had purchased their tickets in advance. It was only a month before, that a new location was found for the festival. That time Max Yasgur offered his dairy farm to host the Woodstock Festival (Bethel New York).

Many things went wrong with the organization of food, more water, toilets, building playgrounds for children, gates and camping. The reason for it is that the initial estimate of fifty thousand people was low, so that they raised the number to two hundred thousand people. It seemed like everything was arranged at the last moment.

Three days before the festival over fifty thousand people came to Woodstock to put up tents near the stage. For the organizers it was difficult to make so many people to move their location, for it was possible for them to buy entrance-tickets. The situation was challenging for the organizers, which declared the Woodstock Festival to be free of charge. This had both good and bad consequences; on the one hand the organizers were going to lose a great deal of money, on the other hand, a lot of people got to know about the free festival and over 500,000 people made their way to Bethel, New York.

Despite all the organization troubles, the festival started on time and was a great success. Musicians like Santana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, warmed up the huge crowds of people. A lot of sex, drugs and nudity found their place in the festival by the 'flower generation.'