a farm in upstate new york for 3 chaotic days of music and indulgence the festival featured acts like a janis joplin and jimi hendrix but it also became a byword for mind expanding drugs and useful idealism 50 years later pablo foley ileus visits the town where it all happened there are reminders everywhere from peace signs to toys 19 sixties hippie culture is still ever present. but as woodstock become some want of a theme park. mark hedrick has run a souvenir shop on the thames main street for over 20 years. marketing is a stronghold in any kind of market like this the there was very little marketing done when the concert was done in fact that to the best my knowledge there was never a shirt sold and now the marketing stuff came after the fact. but here in the town