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Opinion: Woodstock almost didn't happen
Few people remember this, or don't want to talk about it much. But before it became exalted as a mid-20th century miracle, as emblematic a triumph of collective human endeavor as the first lunar landing only a month before, Woodstock was being written off, while it was happening, as a disaster, a hippie Waterloo and the end of a beautiful dream of community.