Why Woodstock Still Matters

Specials | Aug 14, 2019

A celebration of the Woodstock spirit that still carries important social lessons on how ordinary people can effect change. Now that the Woodstock generation has indeed inherited the world, what lessons from their utopian dream are still being implemented today? How has the '60s hippie ethos that cherished the value people placed on one another that weekend permeated society in general?

Why Woodstock Still Matters

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