The Woodstock Music and Art Fair—better known to its participantsand to history simply as “Woodstock”—should have been a colossal failure.Just a month prior to its August 15, 1969 opening, the council ofWallkill, New York, informed the fair’s organizers that it was withdrawingits permission to hold the festival.Amazingly, the organizers found a new site, a large field in Woodstock,New York, owned by a local dairy farmer. Word spread to the publicof the fair’s new location. The event drew a larger audience than theorganizers had expected. On the first day of the fair, crowd estimates of30,000 kept rising; traffic jams blocked most roads leading to the area.Some musicians could not reach the site to appear at their scheduled times.In addition, fences that were supposed to facilitate ticket collection nevermaterialized, so the organizers abandoned all attempts at taking tickets.But that was not all: as the large crowd gathered, so did summerstorm clouds. It started raining on opening night and continued for muchof the three-day event. To deal with the crowd, which reached an estiREADING105mated 500,000 by the third day, helicopters flew in food, doctors, andmedical supplies.Despite all of its problems, the festival featured some of the greatestmusicians of the 1960s, including Janis Joplin; Joan Baez; Crosby,Stills, Nash, and Young; Sly and the Family Stone; Creedence ClearwaterRevival; and Jimi Hendrix. Today many people think of Woodstock
not only as a milestone for rock music but as the defining moment
for an entire generation.
9. The main idea of this passage is best expressed in which
sentence?
a. Most Americans think of Woodstock as a bunch of
kids dancing to music in the mud.
b. The organizers underestimated how many people the
festival would attract.
c. Despite poor planning, Woodstock was a success and
a high point for a generation of Americans.
d. The organizers succeeded in their goal of creating a
historically significant event.
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