"HOLY GROUND"

38-acre site of the Historic 1969 Woodstock Festival
looking left to right from the corner of West Shore and Hurd Road.

PHOTO BY MATT DETRICH
Staff Photographer
Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio

(click on phototo see more of Matt's work during the 1996 Eddie Adams Workshop)

"For most people, it's not very meaningful: a 40-acre field and that ridiculous monument," said Ira Cohen, a Woodstock veteran who is now county attorney.
(as stated in Associated Press article by Michael Hill)

During the 15th Annual Woodstock Nation Reunion, ARTHUR SHUBERT, BERT FELDMAN (Bethel town historian) and friends placed this monument at the historic Woodstock Festival site in Bethel, N.Y. They designed and constrcted the monument to commemorate "the 'HOLY GROUND' of the Woodstock Generation". (New York Times article, Thu. 16 August 1984)
The plaques on the monument were designed and constructed by WAYNE SAWARD using the Historic Woodstock Festival Logo, a dove on the neck of a guitar.
For complete files and archives of the first 15 annual reunions contact Bill Lubinski in the historic Catskill hamlet of Woodstock located 60 miles away in Ulster County, NY, "WHERE ART LIVES"

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