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Bulgur Wheat at Woodstock

HOW WOODSTOCK HAPPENED: PART 11 OF 12
Posted: on Recordonline.com - July 26, 2009 - 2:00 AM

This is an excerpt of a story written by Times Herald-Record staff and first printed in 1989 that describes how the Woodstock festival came together. This week, the crowd balloons:

At sunup Sunday, Grace Slick's voice wafted out of the festival bowl to a pasture above: “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small …”

“Some (jerk) was out there making eggs over a campfire, going, ‘Hey man, it's the Airplane! Hey, man, it's the Airplane!'” recalled Jerome O'Connell, a hippie from Rome.

Wavy Gravy called it “Breakfast in bed for 400,000.”

The recipe:.
Rolled oats or bulgur wheat (often both). Cook until mush. Add peanuts for taste. Cook until the texture of goulash. For a side dish, stir-fry any vegetables that can be scraped together. Scoop the mixtures onto paper plates.

By noon, the sun was beating down on Bethel. Heatstroke became the biggest worry; even some fans were showing signs of pneumonia from being drenched for two days. The promoters considered turning the fire hoses on to mist the crowd but didn't. It started to rain again in the afternoon. Sunday's lineup again was packed with rockers: The Band; Joe Cocker; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Ten Years After; Johnny Winter; and Jimi Hendrix.

While other stars flitted in and out of the show aboard helicopters, Hendrix was roaming the crowd on foot. Some remember the star's turn in the freak-out tent that day. Hendrix lay on a stretcher for about 30 minutes before roadies hauled him out.

Attendance estimates kept rising. By Sunday, the state police figure was 450,000, and others rounded it off to an even half-million. But Times Herald-Record editor Al Romm, who coordinated coverage from a trailer behind the stage, believed the estimates were all wrong. Citing aerial photos, Romm swore that Woodstock drew maybe 150,000 people.

Bert Feldman, Bethel's historian, also maintained that the attendance figures were wrong. But he thought the figures were low.

“There were 700,000 people there,” he said. “The attendance estimate is based on aerial photos, and there were thousands of people under trees.”