Walk Through Woodstock -

Walk Through Woodstock - Museum Lets Visitors Relive The Legendary Concert

The following story is courtesy of Michael Hill from The Associated Press:

JIMI HENDRIX' dive-bombing guitar runs on 'The Star-Spangled Banner'. Rain chants.

JOE COCKER's chicken strut. The love, mud and three days of music.

The Woodstock experience is a museum piece now.

The Museum at Bethel Woods opened June 2 on the site of the old dairy farm northwest of New York City that was trampled under by some 400,000 people on the wet weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969. Part of a $100 million music and arts center, it tells the story of Woodstock. Mocked recently by conservatives as a "hippie museum," the exhibits actually give a thorough look at the generation-defining concert and the noisy decade that led up to it.

"It's sort of a three-act play," said Michael Egan, who is in charge of developing the museum for the nonprofit Gerry Foundation. "We tell you the story of the '60s, the story of Woodstock and the story of the legacy of Woodstock."

Max Yasgur's farm was chosen for the Woodstock concert after efforts to hold the show in the artsy town of the same name fell through. All-stars such as

Hendrix, THE GRATEFUL DEAD and THE WHO provided the music, but it was the army of young baby boomers -- many of them gatecrashers -- whose bliss amid the chaos made Woodstock a watershed event of the 1960s.

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