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Arlo Guthrie Sings as Woodstock Fans Flock to Concert Site

Associated Press

   BETHEL, N.Y - Tie-dyed pilgrims and white-haired Woodstock festival
   veterans converged at the generation-defining site to celebrate its
   50th anniversary, while Arlo Guthrie came back to sing -- what else? --
   "The Times They Are a-Changin'."

   Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is hosting a series of events Thursday
   through Sunday at the bucolic 1969 concert site, 80 miles (130
   kilometers) northwest of New York City.

   Guthrie, an original Woodstock performer, played an evening set atop
   the famous hill, but said he also wanted to play at least one song near
   where the 1969 stage was located. Picking up a guitar, he sang the Bob
   Dylan classic for a group of reporters gathered on the grass under the
   wilting afternoon sun.

   "It was a great time," Guthrie told reporters, his long white hair
   flowing from a straw hat. "For me, the Woodstock festival was a
   celebratory end of an era. It was not the beginning of anything. It was
   the end of something, and it was an end of a very turbulent time that
   was also very wonderful."

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