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The word conjures up images of nearly half a mil-lion concert-goers — self-de-scribed hippies and flower children — wallowing in a muddy mess for a three-day music festival that began Aug. 15, 1969, on a dairy farm near Bethel in upstate New York.Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Cree-dence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, among others, performed 50 years ago at the historic event.Woodstock, with its sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, be-came synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Participants and historians describe Woodstock, billed a “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” as an experience that never existed before, and probably never would occur again.Galveston resident Holly Hanson was at Woodstock. In 1969, Hanson lived in Sidney, a small New York town not too far from the concert venue. She was 16 years old. She and four friends bought tickets, sleeping bags and sesame stick snacks and headed south for what should have been a 90-minute trip. It took hours — and as they got closer to their destination, they realized they were in for some-thing special, Hanson said.“We had tickets, but by the time we got there, the fenc-es were gone and everyone was just walking around,” said Hanson, who co-owns the Antique Warehouse, 423 25th St. in downtown Galveston, with her husband, Scott. Once they settled in and secured a spot on the hill, one of her friends went to get some drinks for their group. He never returned.photo by KELSEY WALLINGHolly Hanson holds a 50-year-old brochure from Woodstock at her house in Galveston. Hanson has saved memorabilia, including her ticket and a New York Times advertisement, from the famous festival. COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019 63(Clockwise from above) More than 400,000 people attend Woodstock, which was held on a 600-acre pasture in the Catskill Mountains near White Lake in Bethel, New York, in August 1969; concert-goers sit on the roof of a Volkswagen bus during the festival, which was billed as “3 Days of Peace and Music”; people abandon their trucks, cars and buses as they try to reach the festival. Cars were backed up for 10 miles. The festival closed the New York State Thruway, creating one of the nation’s worst traffic jams; a memorial plaque at the site of Woodstock in Bethel, New York.AP FILE PHOTOS64 COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019FEATUREphoto by JENNIFER REYNOLDSDan Bischof shows one of the original posters from Woodstock. He was 16 years old when he and friends made the road trip to attend the three-day music festival in New York. COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019 65“He could never find us,” she said. “There were just so many people.”The music was amazing, said Han-son, fondly remembering her favorite was Carlos Santana.“When he hit the stage, the crowd went crazy,” she said. Hanson also enjoyed the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Janis Joplin, she said.But what she remembers most was the kindness of the local peo-ple and the caring spirit of the other concert-goers, she said. A trip to the supermarket revealed shelves stripped of everything, except cleaning sup-plies.“It was such an extraordinary event,” she said. “It happened once. It was packed — no food, no water and just miserable conditions.”But the festival and the people are embedded in her mind forever, she said.“It was just a sea of people,” she said. “It was not an ideal situation, but everyone was happy and it was absolute magic. I just can’t believe it was 50 years ago.”Dan Bischof, who now lives on Galveston’s West End, attended Wood-stock with a few of his surfer buddies from Orlando, Florida. Bischof’s older brother was a roadie for musician Johnny Winter and he worked at a New York City club and agreed to chaperone the 16-year-olds on their trip to New York.The group drove north toward Bethel, but walked the last few miles because of the incredible traffic jam, Bischof said.“We had nowhere to go, but we ended up staying under the Berkley psychedelic bus,” which was parked on the fairgrounds, he said.Bischof quickly lost his Kmart sleeping bag and canteen, but that was fine, he said.“I just remember The Who playing ‘Touch Me’ as the sun was rising in the morning,” he said. “It was unbe-lievable.”photo by KELSEY WALLINGHolly Hanson holds a Woodstock brochure, which listed art activities and food options that were not offered at the festival because of overwhelming attendance.66 COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019FEATUREBischof recalls Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, Country Joe and the Fish, Carlos San-tana and John Sebastian performing at the festival. It was incredible, he said.“We really had no clue,” Bischof said. “But as we walked through the crowd, we had never seen anything like this or people who looked like these people. It was transcen-dental. I’ve never heard anything like that since.”Bischof and two of his friends — one lives in Dallas and the other in St. Peters-burg, Florida — are returning to Bethel to celebrate the 50th anniversary this month. But this time, they won’t be sleeping on the ground — they’ve rented a house for the week and intend to go to all three planned concerts that will commemorate Woodstock.Max B. Yasgur’s dairy farm is still there and has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. This year’s concert will be held in the original amphitheater. In the past decade, the Bethel Center for the Arts has erected the Museum at Bethel Woods, dedicated to the 1960s and a walk through the decade of peace, love, sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. photo by JENNIFER REYNOLDSDan Bischof still has one of the original programs and tickets from Woodstock. A photo of him wearing a yellow shirt sitting atop a bus named, Hal, at the three-day concert made the cover of a book about the event.photos by KELSEY WALLING(From left) Holly Hanson looks at a picture book from Woodstock. She has collected memorabilia from the three-day festival for years; Hanson points to the lineup from the Saturday of Woodstock. She was able to see acts like Santana, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead and The Who.The Paisley Craze BandLIVE IN CONCERTAUGUST 24, 20192020 Postoffice St. • Galveston, TX 77550Festival Activities:Two hours of Peace & MusicTie-Dye Spin Art Trivia & Games Photo Booth History of Woodstock • MerchandiseRelive the music of:Creedence Clearwater Revival The Grateful Dead • Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin • Crosby, Stills and Nash The Who and much more!Tix from $20!50TH ANNIVERSARY LOVE TOURPEACE &WOODSTOCKERA!Celebrating theof theDoors open at 5:30 pm Show at 7:00 pmDress to impress!Order online, by phone or at the Box Office | Call (409) 765-1894Open M-S 9:00 am - 5:00pm | www.thegrand.comThe Daily News presents68 COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019FEATURE‘CHOICE IS POWER’Stella & Dot co-founder launched a business where women are boss story by KERI HEATH | photo by JENNIFER REYNOLDSJessica Herrin is the CEO and co-founder of the highly popular jewelry and accessory brand Stella & Dot that allows women to run their own businesses through direct sales.Herrin was the co-founder of WeddingChannel.com, now owned by The Knot, when she founded Stella & Dot with partner Blythe Harris in 2004 as a way to give women a career alternative.In 2014, Herrin launched Stella & Dot Family Brands with KEEP Collective charm accessories and EVER skin-care products.A graduate of Stanford University and of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Herrin lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family.When she was on the island for the Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce Women’s Conference in May, Herrin sat down with Coast Monthly to discuss entrepreneurship and women in business.Q: What did you want to bring to the table for women when you started Stella & Dot?A: I had started early in my career doing e-commerce. All I could think was, ‘Whatever you do, don’t do what I’m doing.’ It looks so good on TV, but it’s a nightmare. I worked seven days a week and I was struggling to define success as happiness rather than what looks good on TV. I became curious and, ultimately, obsessed with coming up with what business could look like for the modern woman who wants to have her own thing, but doesn’t want to sacrifice everything for it.Q: How have responsibilities for women changed since you started this company?A: The thing that we need to focus on is not just the pay gap, which is clear and obvious that we need to do that, but we also need to close the happiness gap. The government has done a study on basic happiness by gender since 1972. Women have become progressively less happy than men. What’s interesting is we have more choice now. With more choice, comes more pressure and more ways that we believe we can fall short. Women have to give themselves permission to not be all things to all people all the time.Q: How does Stella & Dot give women the flexibil-ity to pursue their passions?A: Because we are so mission-driven and focused on growth and learning, they learn skills, whether it’s man-agement or social media marketing or confidence, that benefit them at their other jobs and often bolsters them to go and do something else on the side. It really does provide choice. Choice is power.Q: How important is community to the success of women entrepreneurs?A: People can know what to do and they can know how to do it, but if they don’t have the motivation to actually do it, nothing changes. Energy comes from other people.Q: Is the intersection of personal and professional becoming a larger part of the conversation in entre-preneurship?A: I think it has to be more of a conversation.For me, I had to opt out of a traditional role that I thought was too rigid and start my own path. I’m a mom. I’m a wife. I’m all these other things outside of being a CEO, and those things are important. COASTMONTHLY.COM | AuguST 2019 69Next >