Woodstock
eBook - ePub

Woodstock

From World War to Culture Wars

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Woodstock

From World War to Culture Wars

About this book

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

Bronze Winner of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Popular Culture category

Few towns in America are as famous as Woodstock, New York-although Woodstock may be most famous for an event that happened many miles away! Long before the 1969 Woodstock festival put the town on the map, it had been a center for artists and free thinkers who found refuge in its rural setting. Longtime citizens were often shocked by the arrival of these newcomers who brought new values and attitudes to their once-isolated village. From the transformative arrival of artists in the early twentieth century to the influx of musicians and young people in the 1960s, Woodstockers worked and struggled to balance everyday life in a small, rural community with the attention and notoriety the outside world brought to it. Presented chronologically, this text examines the nature of change within Woodstock's uncommon story as it emerges from the Great Depression, confronts the realty of World War II, moves through the 1950s and into an unimagined and unintended future with the arrival of the Sixties through today. At its core, this is a story of how Woodstock's cultural and political institutions, its citizens, and its physical landscape met the ever-changing challenges of changing times. It is a story of community, resilience, conflict, and transition into a world its early settlers could not have imagined.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Woodstock: By Way of Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 Setting the Stage
  9. Chapter 2 1941: With Eyes on the Horizon
  10. Chapter 3 The War Comes to Woodstock
  11. Chapter 4 Honor and Dishonor
  12. Chapter 5 Here Come the Fifties
  13. Chapter 6 Small-Town Life
  14. Chapter 7 The Sixties Arrive
  15. Chapter 8 Changing Times
  16. Chapter 9 Where’s the Peace and Love?
  17. Chapter 10 Woodstock: What’s in a Name?
  18. Chapter 11 The Seventies: Turning toward Home
  19. Chapter 12 The Vanishing Village?
  20. Notes
  21. Selected Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover