Woodstock
October 25 1970 for 3 weeks Hippie festival in upstate New York. Mud, drugs, smelly people, The Who and Jimi Hendrix. Formed out of LaSalle and Cook Counties in 1836 -- named for Major William McHenry an Indian fighter in Tecumseh's War and the Blackhawk War -- Woodstock is the hometown of Factacular member Allan R. Matthes -- actor Orson Welles attended Todd School for Boys in Woodstock -- cartoonist Chester Gould lived in Woodstock and drew the comic strip Dick Tracy from his Woodstock home from 1931 to 1977 Charles Schulz. A bird friend of Snoopy Hippie festival in upstate New York. Mud, drugs, smelly people, The Who and Jimi Hendrix. 1970; counterculture anthem written by Joni Mitchell; peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 The little bird friend and confidante of Charlie Brown's pet beagle.
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