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Happy 40th birthday Woodstock baby, if you exist.
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BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) - Welcome to middle age, Woodstock Baby—if you're really out there.
The babies reportedly born at the Woodstock festival 40 years ago remain the most enduring mystery from that chaotic weekend that defined a generation. Depending on the source, there was one birth on that patch of upstate New York farmland between Aug. 15-17, 1969. Or two. Or three. Or none.
There is some tantalizing evidence. Singer John Sebastian is captured on film announcing that some cat's old lady just had a baby, a kid destined to be far out. A couple of surviving eyewitnesses say there were births. The concert's medical director told reporters at the scene there were two births: one at a local hospital after the mother was flown out by helicopter; the other in a car caught in the epic traffic jam outside the site crowded with more than 400,000 people.
But no one has come forward with a credible public claim of giving birth to a Woodstock baby or being born there. No one has produced proof that it happened. If babies were born at Woodstock, they have lived their lives ignoring—or unaware of—the fact that reporters and researchers have been on their trail for decades.
"I've searched, I've spoken to the doctors and nurses from the main hospitals that were there," said Myron Gittell, who wrote the new medical history, "Woodstock '69: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Medical Care."
Like many before him, he found nothing.
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Where are these "historians" looking for proof? The Bethel Hall of Records? NY State Vital Statistics? The Woodstock Archives? Wavy Gravy's house? Mountain Girl's garage?
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The Simps! They the need to be looking for these kids at more obvious places. Waffle House, Grateful Dead Concerts, Rainbow People gatherings, Chapel Hill NC, Berkeley CA, the California General Assembly, NORML, the offices of High Times magazine. The kinds of places 40ish hippie children and "freaques" might hang out.
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Schteveo wasn't at Woodstock, or maybe he just forgot...
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OH, another good place to look, Texas Hill Country.
(tell 'em Jimbo)
2 comments:
I guess you'd have to look in Luckenbach. That's right up the road from Hye and Stonewall, NW of Austin about 60 miles.
Heart of mushroom country.
(Steve's friend told me that.)
wasn't Obama born at Woodstock??
it would explain the missing birth cert
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