>> liftoff. there was a lot going on in the summer of '69. three days in the country in upstate new york seemed like a good idea to a lot of people. ♪ ♪ ♪ some erhee twdin cro was photographer burke uzell and early that sunday morning as jefferson airplane took the stage. >> good morning, people! >> he took a picture. >> a very gentle scene. you can see people still asleep, people just beginning to come to. they just stood up and gave each other a big hug. sort of, nuzzled each other for a little bit. got a few frames off. then it was over. >> it wasn't over. the photo made the cover of the hugely popular woodstock sound track album and became an instant icon. but who were those two people? well, she was 20-year-old bobbi kelly who worked at a local bank. he was nick erkoline, 20, a college kid with two jobs. both were from upstate new york. they had started dating just two months earlier and married two years after woodstock. these days, bobbi is a school nurse. nick, a retired carpenter. and the best news might just be that they are still married. we asked them to return to the site of the woodstock festival and share their memories 40 years later. >> it just sounded like something spectacular was going on. and we needed to see it. >> this is something that was so close to us. why would we miss it? ♪ >> the draw of woodstock was the music. a marathon concert by some of the 60s biggest stars. but the real star of troo bewd o itse. half a million strong, far bigger than anyone expected. >> there was singing, there was crying, there was shouting, there was laughing. there were so many people. it was so much going on. >> they were from all over the country. they came from all over the world, matter of fact. but we were all kind of alike. we all wanted to get along. >> it was about peace and love, and the generosity and the sharing. and the togetherness. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom >> our music reflected a lot of things going on. civil rights. the women's movement, anti-war protests. an that was the main joy that was here. this is our music, this is us, this is our time. >> this countryside fell silent long ago. and in all these years, the erkolines never met the man who took the famous picture until just this spring. great honor.leasure. >> welcome to our own. >> the moment was captured by a documentary film crew as burke uzell photographed them once again. this time for smithsonian magazine. >> with all that they had symbolized in this photograph now they are still living it. how beautiful is that? >> this is the picture that matters most to the erkolines these days. it is about family. but that other photo taken so long ago will always be part of their lives and ours. >> yeah, it's me and bobbi. more of a couple of kids caught in the moment. that's how i look at it. it is reallywesome to sit back. and say, wow that's really reflective of my generation. >> our kids have grown up with it. it's part of who we are. it's part of who they are. and it's a wonderful thing to share with somebody that you love. >> there you go. woodstock, 40 years later. how about that. that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to have you back here tomorrow evening. good night. tomorrow evening. good night. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com