Volume 79, Number 11 | August 19 - 25, 2009
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933

Villager photos by Clayton Patterson

Legends of Woodstock
Michael Lang, the Woodstock Festival’s organizer, above, and Henry Diltz, the festival’s official photographer, below, celebrated the groundbreaking countercultural fest’s 40th anniversary last Thursday with a book signing and reception at Morrison Hotel Gallery, at 313 Bowery. The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian was on hand, and there was a slideshow of Woodstock photos with a monologue by Walter Cronkite reporting on the festival.