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50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK

Woodstock Festgoers

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By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh and wife Meg recently revisited a scene from their salad days: the site of Woodstock.

Woodstock, baby.

“Meg called me one day and asked if I wanted to go to this concert,” said Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh.

That concert? The famous Woodstock festival, held Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel Woods, 50 years ago this week.

“Woodstock was one of the most important cultural and music moments in history,” said Greg Harris, president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. “It was the pivotal time when young people were questioning their place in the world, and they came together with others feeling the same way in this massive gathering.”

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s “Woodstock at 50” exhibit opened earlier this summer, featuring never-before-seen color film footage, photos and artifacts from the “Summer of Love.”

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