The (about) 450,000 people who converged on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the summer of ’69 for Woodstock didn’t all experience ...

Five weeks before the festival, Max Yasgur agreed to host Woodstock on his property. His farm provided natural amphitheater seating for Woodstock. Over 400,000 people showed up for the music festival.

Among a litany of legendary 1960s performances, one defining closed the epochal Woodstock free festival and granted the event its most iconic moment.