...in August of 1969, what happened on a dairy farm in upstate New York changed the course of rock music, and stamped an image on American culture” B. On August 15, 1969 in Bethel, New York, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was three day festival that was all about peace, love, understanding, music, and serious partying. C. It was a historic event that changed many peoples outlook on life and was a big part of what is known as the hippie movement. D. The Woodstock festival of 1969 is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most pivotal moments in popular music history and was listed among Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. II. Planning and Preparation A. Four men named Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman originally established Woodstock. 1. Their original idea was to create a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, which is where top artists of the time such as Bob Dylan were living. a. Their idea then turned into having a concert where the proceeds would go towards the building of this recording studio. B. They were not allowed to have the concert in Woodstock, because the town didn’t have an appropriate site to host the event. C. The next site was in Wallkill, NY and they paid $10,000 to secure the site. 1. It was located in an industrial park. 2...
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...Family of Woodstock, Inc. Paper Delivery of Human Services BSHS/355 Family of Woodstock, Inc. Family of Woodstock, Inc. began as an advocacy group that believes everyone is entitled to their inalienable right to food, clothing, and shelter. The belief of the helper and help having a common ground creates a sense of a world united. The Family of Woodstock organization brought forward a non-judgmental attitude as it reached out as well as opened its arms to those in need. This is stated in their mission statement, “We maintain an attitude which is non-judgmental and non-directive, so that all individuals are encouraged to resolve problems in a way that honors their own diverse cultural and personal choices” (Woodstock). This attitude makes them committed to provide assistance of others while combining resources in a diverse manner to improve the quality of life for those in need at no charge. The Family of Woodstock Organization is a result of the Community of Woodstock’s view of its homeless and drug problem as not an issue of theirs. This was due to the radical youth of the time migrating to the area, seeking out the legendary site of the most memorable music festival. To prevent further imprisonment of the youth who came to the area to use or deal drugs, Founder Gail Varsi, gave the local police a hot line to contact her. (Gibbons, 10) That number to this day remains the number to the initial walk-in center located in Woodstock, NY. The organizations growth and development...
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...part of the hippie movement. Many influential musicians who had played at the Woodstock festival refused to show up because of the size the festival became. Woodstock was actually supposed to be a small event containing a few thousand people, but it ended up having over half a million people show up. “The community was not prepared for the crowds that began arriving. By Thursday, August 14th, much of the area had become an enormous traffic jam.” (“Woodstock Festival History: August 15-16-17-18. 1969”) The festival became large part of the American Pop Culture which influenced modern culture and had changed the culture of the younger generation. The younger generation had then tried to recreate this iconic music and art festival due to how historic of an event it was in the 1990’s. Woodstock was the home to many musicians. In the 1960’s, major members of folk and rock movements had gathered in the town because of it’s history, it’s rural environment and the vibe it gave off. Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and many other larger artists had made themselves residents of the small town. Although Woodstock’s purpose was not just suppose to be a historic musical festival, it was originally supposed to be the home to a new large recording studio. They wanted to promote the new recording studio by hosting a rock musical festival. The ticket sales were suppose to fund the recording studio (Perone, 23). Woodstock was supposed to be the original holding place for the festival but was denied permission...
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...Family of Woodstock Inc. Throughout the years there have been many programs that have been focused around helping and aiding those in need. One program in particular that pave the way for runaways and homeless young adults is the Family of Woodstock Inc. The Family of Woodstock Inc. provides services to those who were victims of runaways, domestic violence & sexual assault, substance abusers, and some who had family who just couldn’t care for them. The Family of Woodstock Inc. is not only an open gateway to teens and young adults but it is also a program to help support those in need to find their own strengths. Looking back on the history of Family of Woodstock I would be more than happy to work for this company. I believe with my inspiration to help others I would be a great candidate to work with the Family of Woodstock Inc. who shares the commitment to helping people by supporting their needs to move forward. Woodstock Inc. was created after the Woodstock festival in 1969. This festival brought teens and young adults from all over to experience the three to four day concert that involved lots of music, sex, and drugs. After seeing all the homeless teens and young adults that were left behind after the event, laying around on the streets and benches, hitchhiking, and looking for food and clothing, a nice lady by the name of Gail Varsi decided to step in and help. Ms. Varsi who was a resident of Woodstock decided to extend her hand to help those in need. She...
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...of runaways, who end up homeless, is the Family of Woodstock, Inc. The Family of Woodstock Inc. provides services to adolescents and young adults who are escaping the confines of the world they are living in such as; domestic violence, substance abuse, sexual assault, and some who couldn’t be taken care of by their family. The Family of Woodstock, Inc. is not only a gateway for adolescents and young adults, it’s an organization that helps provide the materials for individuals in need to find their own strengths and self-sufficiency. As an interviewee, learning the history of this organization and what it stands for, I would love to work for this company. I believe with my passion to help others, especially the young people of our country, I would be an excellent candidate to work with the Family of Woodstock Inc. who recognize that between dream and reality stands obstacles and challenges that have to be overcome. The Family of Woodstock Inc. was created after the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The festival attracted teens and young adults from all over the country to experience the three day concert that was filled with drugs, sex, and music. Once the festival was over, many of the “concert-goers” were still seen around the town living in tents, sleeping on benches, hitchhiking, and seeking out clothes and food. A lady by the name of Gail Varsi, who was a resident of Woodstock, decided to step in and help these individuals in...
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...peace and love. This event was identified as such as a result of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. Woodstock Music Festival took place near Woodstock New York on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture. Woodstock began with the following four partners: Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band, Artie Kronfeld, an executive at Capitol Records, and two capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman who supplied most of the money and the original idea. Their original plan was to build a recording studio in Woodstock, a small town in the Catskill Mountains that had become a rock music Mecca when musician Bob Dylan and his rock group called the Band settled there. To get the word out, the four partners decided to hold a concert, which they called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The group originally tried to have the festival in the town of Woodstock, but the citizens would not permit it. Then after much debate Michael Lang decided to move the concert to Wallkill, New York, where the people also protested, so finally he decided to move it about 70 miles away from the town of Woodstock to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm. Looking back on the sighting of the Bethel farm Lang remarked "It was magic, it was perfect. The sloping bowl, a little rise for the stage, and the lake in the background.” Woodstock had more acts scheduled to play then any other single event ever held before. They were trying to sign the biggest rock ‘n’...
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...Family of Woodstock, Inc. Chatisha Bridgeman BSHS 355 July 5, 2015 Melody Gaereths Family of Woodstock, Inc. Paper The field of human services is essentially designed to help people in need and to provide them with support and tools and resources which will allow them to find their way through various crisis or chronic situations. For some individuals the situations that they may need assistance with include coping with the loss of a job or income, meeting basic needs including the need for food, shelter or clothing or help out of a dangerous situation. For other individuals the challenges that they may be facing may be internal such as depression, a physical illness or disability or some other mental or physical health crisis. Throughout history, many people and events have influenced both the development and direction of the human services field. Human services agencies across the country have been formed out of the passion and desire of community members who want to help others and provide them with the tools and resources to live healthy and productive lives. Family of Woodstock, Inc. is one of those organizations with a long and rich history of helping people. The Creation of the Family of Woodstock, Inc. The Family of Woodstock, Inc. began in 1970. The founders created the agency based upon the beliefs that each individual is entitled to food, clothing and shelter. The Family of Woodstock maintains a non-judgmental mentality as the organization continues to...
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...Mya Nunley Mrs. Bowman Informative Speech September 23, 2015 Woodstock Informative Speech I. Intro The sixties were all about trying to find the truth about everything and trying to live that truth in life. That decade was also about looking for key happiness and trying to make perfection and justice for every person in the world. As quoted by Mike Lang, “At Woodstock, we would focus our energy on peace, setting aside the onstage discussion of political issues to just groove on what might be possible. It was a chance to see if we could create the kind of world for which we’d been striving throughout the sixties: That would be our political statement — proving that peace and understanding were possible and creating a testament to the value of the counterculture. It would be three days of peace and music.” II. Body A. What Was Woodstock? (background) * How did it develop into a massive event in history? * The organizers: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield, and Mike Lang. * John Roberts was an heir to a pharmaceutical fortune and he and Rosenman were looking for a way to use his money that would bring in more money. * Kornfield and Lang’s original idea was to build a recording studio and a retreat for Rock musicians in Woodstock, New York. * The location turned out to be very wrong, and the town of Wallkill didn’t want drugged out hippies to be in their town. * The city passed a law July 2, 1969, that banned the concert...
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...The music during the 1960s was about bringing people together. Woodstock was a huge three-day, non stop concert. It was one of the most memorable events that happened in the 1960s, but it all started because of some unknown wealthy college kids. “The most asked question was not “What was Woodstock” but “ What happened to Woodstock?” (Smith). Woodstock was this enormous concert that took part on a dairy farm in the small rural of Bethel, New York.” The owner of the small rural farm in Bethel, New York is Max Yasgur”(Waddell). Woodstock was mainly filled by war protesters, but Woodstock was never meant to be a protest against any war. The main reason for Woodstock was to help bring the people of the U.S together. “The punctuation point of...
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...8 Apr 2011 Woodstock: Peace, Music, and Memories In the summer of 1969, a music festival known as “Woodstock” took place for three straight days in Upstate, New York with thirty-two musical acts playing, and over 400,000 people from around the world coming to join this musical and peaceful movement. Woodstock started out being a small concert, created to promote peace in the world. Now, Woodstock is still being celebrated over 40 years later. This three day music festival represented the perfect concert for the “baby boomers” during a messy political time. Woodstock significantly impacted the counterculture era of the 1960’s in a number of ways; how it began, the ideas of the concert, the sense of union and love it represented and it impacted the entire counter- culture era. That weekend, there were all kinds of different people and together they made love, money and a little history. Over all, the concert cost more than 2.4 million dollars. It started when four completely different people sponsored it. There was John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. The oldest was only twenty-six, and the youngest man being only twenty-three. All four of the guys didn’t agree on much, but they did agree on a slogan, “Three Days of Peace and Music.” They figured that the “peace” would help promote the anti-war act and they figured it might also decrease violence at the event. The Dove on the Guitar was originally a catbird perched on a flute. But, because of the...
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...The Family of WoodStock Paper BSHS 355 IRN 9032261166 Diane Allen November 3, 2014 Family of Woodstock Individual Contemporary America Paper The founders of Family of Woodstock organization was established in 1970, the Woodstock received its name from a small town. In the town they would have festivals which would attract a large crowd of young people, this brought instant fame to towns surrounding Woodstock and that started the gatherings. Many young people would hitch hike and spend all of their funds they had to get there causing them to in turn, be left out with no food or shelter (Burger, 2011). The main goal for human service was to provide a confidential and fully accessible intervention for crisis, prevention, resources, and support services while being able to utilize the network of volunteers that helped expand strength based programs which allowed individuals to be healthier. Also communities would provide a sense of strong leadership in efforts to help people to achieve the goals of self-sufficiency and self-respect. Family of Woodstock specializes in general needs that are wanting to be met within the community which allows a 24 hours emergency switchboard that would be accessible county wide and also toll free. The specialization is allowing/offering walk-in centers that can help individuals with emergency shelters so that they can help those who are homeless and food programs and provides hot meals. Most of the facilities offer up to fourteen beds that...
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...kiesha jones Tristram Jones BSHS /355 DELIVERY OF HUMAN SERVICES What is Woodstock? Woodstock is an organization that helps people that are in need with shelter, transportation, programs that help with domestic violence, teen runaways, food shelters and case management services and adolescents. Family of Woodstock was born when the community need was recognized and addressed. Some of the factors that led the family of Woodstock are one single goal, and that is helping people fix their lives themselves. Adolescent, childcare, community, domestic violence hotline, homeless services are each with specialized subversions is the main thrust. After ensuring the inalienable rights of food, clothing and shelter the family of Woodstock opens wide its arms to embrace and assist in all manner of human problems The family of Woodstock meet the needs of the community by those that need help will definitely get the help that they need by the programs that they offer. Those that are in the program may be utilize life skills manager, and they are there to assist with daily living skills, money budgeting, laundry, and communication and relationship building. The organization also helps those that have substance abuse or mental illness...
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...Family of Woodstock, Inc. was founded after the town was overwhelmed incorporated in 1971 after the 1969 rock festival in the Town of Woodstock, NY. The people seeking Bob Dylan who was not present at his home because he has gone to see to his ailing son. Since the 1969 show was held in the backyard of Bob's house, people were expecting him to be there but this did not happen. In such cases, people are usually arrested; therefore, in order to bring in an alternative to police action, a group of residents came together and formed a group while another resident, Gail Varsi provided her phone number on which people could call in case of any problem. Thus, Family came into existence and still exists till today as one of the oldest hotlines in the country. The line is open 24-hours a day and used to be first answered by Varsi herself and when she was away, her friend used to answer the calls; since then, volunteers were used as replacement and currently, paid staff are used (Family of Woodstock). Discussion The main aim of the agency was to help people and not burden them by judging their actions. It was a type of police service that would not harm anyone and just provide guidance and support. Instead of making decisions, the staff would listen to the issues of people and help them make the right decision. Most of the time, the staff would refer to existing services and whenever there was no service available, they used to do whatever they could to help people. The efforts...
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...Family of Woodstock Family of Woodstock The Family of Woodstock was started in 1970, since then this program has grown as is still around today and still going strong. They called each individual FAMILY that walk through their door and confidentially help them with all kinds of information, crisis intervention, and prevention. Their staff is both volunteers and paid associates that work a large scale of issues and problems that may arise ("Family of Woodstock", 2015). In 1970 Family was founded by eight volunteering individuals who were trained to work with people who were high on drugs, they would go into the persons home or where they were and spend hours making sure that they were ok. Gail Varsi, who actually told police to call her if there was any problems, is the founder of the Family Hotlines, her home phone number is still used as the hotline number today. She even had friends and volunteers at her home to answer the phone is she needed to leave her house (Gibbons, 2010). Today there are signs all over their establishments that state “any problem under the sun” (Gibbons, 2010) to ensure their clients that they will help them help themselves. They do not tell their clients what to do, they do not tell their clients how to fix their problems. They do not judge their clients for what they have done or what they have not done. Family has an open door policy where anyone can use them when they need to, for example someone comes in one week needing a food source...
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...Family of Woodstock Jenny Munoz March 10, 2011 BSHS/355 The Family of Woodstock, a social service agency, was founded by those individuals who felt that certain factors presented the opportunity for them to start a social service agency as a direct result of the Woodstock Festival held in a town approximately 100 miles from their location. Many of those who attended the Woodstock Festival brought little, if any, personal belongings or food with them. They were sleeping in parks and spent time hunting down food and/or shelter. In many cases, the attendees were looking for shelter, food and clothing. The community came together with one resident by the name of Gail Vaisl offering her home as well as her telephone service to prevent the Festival attendees from roaming through the area and possibly being arrested for vagrancy. This began the Family of Woodstock whose mission is “to provide confidential and fully accessible crisis intervention, information, prevention, and support services to address the needs of individuals and families. The scope of the agency's vision allows us to bring to bear resources to address a broad spectrum of human problems.” (Family of Woodstock, 2014). The commitment that the staff at Family would not tell people what to do nor pass judgment on them, the staff was instructed to listen and encourage those who came for help to make choices that would be of benefit. The qualified workers goal was to refer them to the existing agencies, but be able...
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