Leandra Jacobson 4/25

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, "Where are you going?"
And this he told me...

I'm going on down to Yasgur's Farm,
I'm gonna join in a rock and roll band.
I'm gonna camp out on the land.
I'm gonna get my soul free.

We are stardust.
We are golden.
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

This song, “Woodstock” by Joni Mitchell, is one of my favorite. I love how perfectly the beginning fits with this class. The freedom found in Woodstock has been immortalized in time, the ultimate hippie festival that has been recreated and replicated ever since. I attended one of these festivals last summer, Allgood in West Virginia. It was an incredible experience (from what I can remember) that I wouldn’t trade for anything but definitely will think long and hard before doing again. These peaceful, somewhat lawless organizations of people are what this song calls, getting back to the garden. It is an attempt to return to Eden, creating a natural way of living for people with the similar mindset of music, peace, and love. They usually take place on private property with personal security forces, like Yasgur’s Farm or the mountain we stayed on in Allgood. We camped out on the land, had some soul searching, and definitely felt like stardust. For the 3 days on that mountain we returned to that place of Eden, where humans ran in synch with nature and everything was, well, all good.