"Notwithstanding their personality, their dress and their ideas, they were and they are the most courteous, considerate and well-behaved group of kids I have ever been in contact with in my 24 years of police work." -- Lou Yank, head of the police department in Monticello, New York, speaking about Woodstock, which ran 1969-08-15 to 1969-08-18
"Well, then can I roam beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden"
-- from "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell (though the cover by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is probably better known).