On Tuesday, July 10 at 7 p.m., the Verona Public Library will take a look back at the 1969 Woodstock music
festival.
This multi-media presentation will feature personal photographs and stories by presenter Jim Shelley, a docent at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a performing arts center and museum located at the site where Woodstock took place. During the weekend of August 15–17, 1969, 32 music groups performed outside on a dairy farm in New York’s Sullivan County for more than 400,000 people. The performers included some of the biggest folk and rock musicians of the time, like Joan Baez, the Grateful Dead,The Who and Jefferson Airplane.
The presentation will be held in the Ballroom of the Verona Community Center at 880 Bloomfield Avenue.
