MERRIMAC — This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and while some locals were fortunate enough to have seen the revolutionary rock festival, it would have sounded a lot different were it not for Merrimac's Bill Hanley.
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400,000 - Estimated number of people who attended Woodstock festival. Only 60,000 were expected to attend.
315,000 - Feet of film shot for Woodstock film (120 hours).
7,500 - Paid (in dollars) for The Grateful Dead to perform.
6,000 - Number of patients treated during festival.
2,366 - Population of Bethel in August, 1969. Bethel is the town where the concert was performed.
1,300 - Pounds of canned food, sandwiches and fruit flown in by emergency helicopters.
450 - Cows unfenced for three days by campers.
51 - Number of caldrons of rice-carrot-raisin combo made at Hog Farm Free Kitchen by 3 a.m. Sunday, August 17.
50 - Number of additional doctors flown in from New York City on Aug. 16
31 - Number of acts that performed on main stage.
15 - Average miles walked by festival-goers after leaving their cars due to extreme traffic conditions.
10 - Number of shots fired in air by farmer fed up with noise.
3 - Number of deaths. (Heroin overdose, ruptured appendix and being run over by a tractor).
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1967 Lonely Days
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Paul Williams, after leaving Crawdaddy!, the magazine he started in early 1966, wrote this review for Rolling Stone, June 14, 1969…
http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/the-kinks-the-village-green-preservation-society-1968/
When 80,000 barrels of oil spilled into the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel in January of 1969, the crude-splattered water, beaches, and birds along the California coast in its aftermath became the symbols of modern eco-disaster.
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