The Herald Visits Woodstock

On Saturday, Aug. 17, Mary and John Manges attended the 50th anniversary concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the grounds on which the original Woodstock Music festival was held. John and Mary currently reside in Oxford, Pa, Chester County, but are graduates of Northern Bedford High School. Mary grew up near Woodbury and John from New Enterprise. At the time of the original concert Mary was 14 and John was 13, both ready to enter the ninth grade.

They had visited Bethel Woods 10 years ago the week after the anniversary weekend and at that time the field, that saw nearly 400,000 people,...