DJ Zebra, Z-Trip
This week, after all, marks the 50th anniversary -- 50th anniversary! -- of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, the rain-soaked, mud-splattered three-day rock concert on a farm in upstate New York that many mark as the climactic act of the Boom years. Which raises a question: when you've so long been defined by youth, what do you become when youth is gone? What drew the Woodstock generation together was ultimately not anger, but a hope -- idealistic, naive and impossibly young -- that yet tugs at the imagination, the hope of a better, fairer, cleaner, saner, more peaceful world. As Woodstock veteran Graham Nash recently told CBS News, "I still believe what we believed then ... that love is better than hatred, that peace is much better than war, that we have to take care of our fellow human beings, because this is all we have."
Somewhere along the way, Nash, like many of us, got old. But that hope never did.
Thanks to Leonard Pitts Jr.
Thanks to Leonard Pitts Jr.
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