Woodstock

Okay, go ahead.

My name is Sidney Westerfeld.

I'm the owner of this antique tavern...

...Monmouth Valley, New York State.

I was here when

this crowd really came.

We expected fifty thousand a day,

and there must have been a million!

l, myself, was hungry for two days,

because I couldn't get any food in.

I couldn't get out to buy any food.

I was eating cornflakes for two days!

And the kids were wonderful.

I have no kicks.

It was "sir" this and "sir" that, and...

..."thank you" this and

"thank you" that.

Nobody can complain about the kids.

This thing was too big.

It was too big for the world!

Nobody has ever seen a thing like this!

And when they see this picture in

the news, over the moving pictures...

...they'll really see something!

"It's been a long time coming..."

"...because it's been

a long time gone..."

"...and it appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...time. It's a long,

long, long, long time..."

"...before the dawn."

"Turn, turn any corner."

"Hear, hear, you must hear..."

"...what the people say."

"You know that something..."

"...is going on around here."

"But surely, surely, surely..."

"...one day I'm going to have my day."

"Oh, it appears to be

a long, yes it does..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...ah-ha, such a long, long time..."

"...before the dawn."

"Speak out, you've got to speak out..."

"...against the madness."

"You've got to speak your

mind, yes, today..."

"...but don't, no, don't, don't

try to get yourself elected."

"If you do, you'll have

to cut your hair..."

"...and it appears to be

a long, yes, it does..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...time, such a long,

long, long time..."

"...before the dawn."

"It's been a long time coming..."

"...it's going to be

a long time gone..."

"...but you know..."

"...the darkest hour..."

"...the darkest phase, is always

just before the dawn..."

"...and it appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long..."

"...appears to be a long time..."

"...such a long, long,

long, long time..."

"...before the dawn."

Hey, Mike, what's the worst part

of running one of these things?

The worst part?

What's the worst part of running one?

I don't know.

You dig it all?

I guess the biggest hassle is

dealing with politics. You know.

Is there a lot of politics involved?

You mean with the cities?

And you got that solved?

Well, it looks that way.

How long did it take you to put

it together. Two, three months?

Uh, been working on it

for about nine months.

Nine months! Full time?

Are you in charge of the whole thing?

Yes.

But you got backers?

Partners and backers.

Where are you going to go from here?

I mean, are you going

to do another one?

If it works.

Aw, you're really good tonight!

You know...

...this is the most outrageous spectacle

I've ever witnessed. Ever!

There's only one thing I wish.

I sure have to pee!

And there just is nowhere to go!

I believe we're "GOING UP THE

COUNTRY" a little bit right now.

"I'm going up the country,

baby, don't you want to go?"

"I'm going up the country,

baby, don't you want to go?"

"I'm going to someplace,

where I've never been before."

"I'm going, I'm going, where

the water tastes like wine."

"I'm going where the

water tastes like wine."

"We can jump in the water,

stay drunk all the time."

"I'm going to leave this city.

Got to get away."

"I'm going to leave this city.

Got to get away."

"All this fussing and fighting,

man, you know I sure can't stay."

"Now, baby, pack your leaving trunk.

You know we've got to leave today."

"Just exactly where

we're going, I cannot say..."

"...but we might even leave the U.S.A."

"Because it's a brand new

game and I want to play."

"No use in your running or

screaming and crying..."

"...because you've got a home

as long as I've got mine."

"If you smile at me,

I will understand..."

"...because that is something everybody,

everywhere does in the same way."

"I can't see why you called

a friend from the other side."

"There's just one thing

I've got to know..."

"...can you tell me who I am?"

"Say, can I have some of

your purple berries?"

"Yes, I've been eating them

six or seven weeks now."

"Haven't got sick once,

probably keep us both alive."

"Wooden ships on the water..."

"...very free, easy, easy."

"You know, the way it's supposed to be."

"Silver people on the

shoreline, let us be."

"Talking about very free and easy."

"All the ships that

watch as you die..."

"...all they can do is

echo your anguished cry."

"Still I go keep on feeling, why?"

"We are leaving. You don't need us."

What do you think?

Well, what could I think?

We're in the middle of the, of the

situation and we make the best of it.

It's about all we can do.

We were standing on the curbs

watching them come in, uh, last night.

All the townspeople.

It was just like a, an army invading

a town. It's hard to believe.

Do you live here?

No, we're here for a vacation.

Are you having one?

We did, up until last night.

They kept us up for a while.

Who is they?

Freaks.

Is that what you call yourselves?

Sure.

Why?

Well, because that's what

everybody else calls us.

What do you call yourself that for?

Because we admit it. Compared

to everybody else, we're freaks.

I don't think you are. As long as you

behave yourself, there's nothing wrong.

I'm not putting bad connotations on the

word "freak", you know. I'm just...

Don't you think that the word "freak"

itself has a bad connotation?

It's whatever you think about it.

Last time we saw anything like this was

at the Rose Bowl Parade last New Year's.

That's right.

Like four ice cubes

out of the bag, you know.

They wanted to buy four ice cubes?

Yeah, right.

I don't know, what can you charge

them for ice cubes? You know.

It's a great shot in the arm to Sullivan

County, business-wise.

Something we needed.

As far as whether it will leave a

favorable effect later, besides money...

...we'll know when the festival is over.

Uh, they're beautiful people.

Well is this festival

affecting you in any way?

Well, it's kind of overwhelming us.

Put it this way.

In what way?

Just to take care of,

to try to get the people fed,

I would say is one of the main

objectives here.

I know all these young fellows here,

they've got to be fed

and they're going to get hungry.

I hope that they can bring

enough supplies in for, for...

That seems to be the big trouble.

And traffic, that's... well, you know

yourself without me telling you.

What's it done for business?

Oh, come on.

What's it done?

Increased it about what?

As much as you can do.

Put it this way. And more.

I'll say one thing for the young people.

They've been very nice.

All of them. So far.

It's really amazing. Yet it looks like

some kind of Biblical, epochal...

...unbelievable scene!

They're all, you know, like all...

You see these cars,

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