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Author Berger, Mark L., 1945- author.

Title Something's happening here : a sixties odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock / Mark L. Berger
Published Albany, NY : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages)
Contents Prologue -- Lost in Brooklyn -- Tennessee Reel -- Back to the Boro -- Going north -- Woodstock
Summary "The meadow outside Bethel, New York, is eerily silent. Yesterday it held half a million cheering young people. Only a few hours ago, the closer, Jimi Hendrix, recast the "Star Spangled Banner" as a firefight in the Mekong Delta. Mark Berger's been here the whole time. Arriving four days early, he helped set up kitchens and paths. During the festival, he worked to calm kids tripped out on acid, maneuvered a water truck through a sea of spectators, and fell in love, twice. Woodstock was the party of the century, the Sixties condensed into seventy-two hours, and proof that peace and love could turn a potential disaster into a mythic celebration of life. Now, it's decision time: Does he board a converted school bus and move to a commune in New Mexico or return to New York City to teach in a community-controlled school district? Something's Happening Here begins in Brooklyn eight years earlier, in 1961, where Berger, determined to be true to himself, pledges to live his life boldly. With buddies like Zooby and Bird, he experiences the thrilling fear of joy rides and the roller coaster of mind-altering drugs. He's swept up in the energy of renegade writers and musicians and connects with the counterculture's spirit. Scenes abound: catching the Drifters at a Brooklyn R & B club; digging Allen Ginsberg reading his poetry in a Tennessee steak house; having ony a few seconds to talk his way out of being drafted. At Woodstock it all comes together--who he is, what he believes, and which path he has to take."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Berger, Mark L., 1945-
SUBJECT Woodstock Festival (1969 : Bethel, N.Y.) -- Anecdotes
Woodstock Festival fast
Subject Hippies -- United States -- Biography
Counterculture -- United States -- Biography
Youth -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Young men -- United States -- Biography
Coming of age.
Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Baby boom generation -- New York (State) -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Baby boom generation
Bohemianism
Coming of age
Counterculture
Hippies
Young men
Youth -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State)
New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438474632
1438474636
Other Titles Sixties odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock