In Memoriam Site Of The 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair 1969 - 2004 Yasgur's Farm Bethel, New York FROM; ARTIE KORNFELD (CO-CREATOR AND PRMOTER, WOODSTOCK 1969) TO WPA AND THE ENTIRE WOODSTOCK NATION. " THAT PIECE OF GROUND WE MADE INTO THE GREATEST PEACEFUL EVENT IN HISTORY HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US. WE CANNOT WALK ON THE GROUNDS OR EVEN TOUCH THE MONUMENT, WITHOUT PAYING, FOR SOMETHING MICHAEL, JOHN, JOEL AND I INVITED YOU TO COME TO. 35 YEARS LATER OUR HEARTS AND SOUL ARE BEING BURIED THERE AT OUR OWN WOUNDED KNEE, I WILL NOT LET THE LOSS OF A PIECE OF HALLOWED GROUND CORRUPT MY INNER BEING, AND I WILL ALONG WITH YOU ALL, HOLD OUR GROUND,METEPHORICALLY,IN HISTORY AND IN OUR INNER BEINGS FOR ETERNITY. THEY WILL NOT LIVE RENT FREE IN OUR MINDS BECAUSE OF A FENCE. WHILE IN ALBANY I WAS APPROACHED BY THE GERRY FOUNDATION, AND WAS VERY COMRADE-LIKE SHOWN THE PLANS BY JONATHON DRAPKIN AND ROBIN GERRY. WHEN I GOT BACK TO FLORIDA I SPOKE TO JON, THE RIGHT HAND, AND THEN TRIED TO REACH A VERY FRIENDLY ROBIN. I RECEIVED NO RETURN, SO I HAD NO CHANCE FOR LAST MINUTE SALVO ON A PERSONAL LEVEL WITH HER. I HAVE RECEIVED AN INVITATION TO THE CEREMONIES THAT SITS NOT FRAMED UNDER A PILE OF BILLS. WE HAVE WON ALTHOUGH OUTWARDLY IMPERIALISM GOES FOREWARD. INSIDE WE ARE "THE WOODSTOCK NATION" AND I FOR ONE WILL NEVER GIVE UP, AS CO-CREATOR AND PROMOTER, MY PART OF OUR NATION I HOLD DEARLY. SOUR GRAPES AT THIS POINT ARE TO NO AVAIL. STAND PROUD OF YOUR INSPIRING FIGHT. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS. ARTIE KORNFELD http://www.thewoodstockspirit.org/http://www.artiekornfeld-woodstock.com/
To Artie Kornfield, I'm sitting here silently crying(after reading your post). Why couldn't they make it an "Historic Site" and preserve it? I was apart of the hippy culture at a very young age and to me the land on which woodstock 69 happened IS hallow ground; they should of never touched it!
Is a fence around the site now, preventing you from going in for free? Well, that's okay to me as long as you can still go there. Everything becomes about the mighty dollar eventually these days, so I'm not surprised really. I wonder how many of the original "Woodstock Nation" remain, or even care? <<<< sad
