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Woodstock

After the town of Woodstock turned down a permit, the 1969 music festival was held sixty miles away. But the famed art colony has hosted its own exhibits, concerts and festivals for over a century.

Forty years ago a few rich kids hatched a nutty idea that became an event that rocked the nation, then morphed into a movement whose legacy lives on.

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