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Something's Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock

Something's Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock

Berger, Mark

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

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ISBN10: 1438474628
ISBN13: 9781438474625
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The decade comes alive in this whirlwind ride through the Sixties that begins in Brooklyn and ends at Woodstock.

The meadow outside Bethel, New York, is eerily empty and silent. Yesterday it held half a million cheering people, and only a few hours ago, the closer, Jimi Hendrix, recast the Star Spangled Banner as a firefight in the Mekong Delta. Mark Berger's been here the whole time. Arriving four days early, he helped set up kitchens and paths. During the festival, he worked to calm kids tripping out on bad acid, maneuvered a water truck through a sea of spectators, and fell in love, twice. Woodstock was the sixties condensed into seventy-two hours, and proof that peace and love could turn a potential disaster into a mythic celebration of life. Now, it's decision time: Does he drop out and move to a commune in New Mexico or return to Brooklyn and become a teacher?

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