The Story Behind 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival
On this episode of A New York Minute In History, co-hosts Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts speak with author Mark Berger, Karen Quinn – the Senior Art Curator at the New York State Museum, art collector Arthur Anderson, and Wade Lawrence – the museum director of the Museum at Bethel Woods, about various aspects of Woodstock such as its lesser known origin story, its role as an emblem of counterculture, and it’s often-overlooked connection to the Woodstock Arts Colony.
Folk Plus with Angela Page as Editor and Host on Radio Catskill WJFF
Angela and Mark explore the Sixties era and the ’69 Woodstock Music Festival. First aired on WJFF Saturday, August 10th, 2019 wjffradio.org
WAMC The Roundtable‘s erudite and insightful interviewer Joe Donahue converses with Mark Berger about his book Something’s Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock.
Listen to the interview on WAMC’s The Roundtable. First aired on Monday, May 13, 2019.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 @ 7 pm
Howl! Happening, 6 E 1st St, New York, NY 10003
NYC Book Launch Party
Author Reading and songs of the Sixties with singer/songwriter Olivia Quillio.
(Photo by great photographer & painter, John Wilkes)
Friday, April 5, 2019 @ 7:30 pm, Mark Berger reads from his book Something’s Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock.
New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany