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<blockquote data-quote="Hoosierfrog" data-source="post: 2743165" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>According to some who lived there, the site was not exactly left in pristine condition...</p><p></p><p>“Today, we think of hippies as gentle souls who believe in peace, love, and taking care of Mother Earth. In the late sixties, hippies were mostly just about the first two items on the list, and not so much about the third. Unless they maybe just didn't think of Max Yasgur's dairy farm as "Mother Earth," necessarily.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, the people who went to Woodstock did not, for the most part, seem to give an actual crap about the environment at the festival. According to a 1969 article in The Village Voice, there were still "piles of garbage up and down the hillside" a month after the festival, one of which was "still smoldering."</p><p></p><p>There was evidently some effort to keep the site clean during the festival — trash bags were passed around through the audience at various points — but it wasn't enough to keep the garbage from inundating the nearby woods and the shoulders of most roads. Photos of the aftermath show volunteers filling bags with trash during the last days of the festival, and local people cleaning up the debris that was left in front of their homes and neighborhoods. Perhaps organizers should have billed the festival as "three days of peace, music, and sanitation." That might have at least saved them something on the cleanup.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hoosierfrog, post: 2743165, member: 59"] According to some who lived there, the site was not exactly left in pristine condition... “Today, we think of hippies as gentle souls who believe in peace, love, and taking care of Mother Earth. In the late sixties, hippies were mostly just about the first two items on the list, and not so much about the third. Unless they maybe just didn't think of Max Yasgur's dairy farm as "Mother Earth," necessarily. At any rate, the people who went to Woodstock did not, for the most part, seem to give an actual crap about the environment at the festival. According to a 1969 article in The Village Voice, there were still "piles of garbage up and down the hillside" a month after the festival, one of which was "still smoldering." There was evidently some effort to keep the site clean during the festival — trash bags were passed around through the audience at various points — but it wasn't enough to keep the garbage from inundating the nearby woods and the shoulders of most roads. Photos of the aftermath show volunteers filling bags with trash during the last days of the festival, and local people cleaning up the debris that was left in front of their homes and neighborhoods. Perhaps organizers should have billed the festival as "three days of peace, music, and sanitation." That might have at least saved them something on the cleanup.” [/QUOTE]
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