CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/11/2019

A cosmic traffic jam in 'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music'

Featured photograph, made August 1969 by Ken Regan, is reproduced from Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music, festival founder and organizer Michael Lang's official fiftieth anniversary book from Reel Art Press, launching tonight at Rizzoli Bookstore. "People began to improvise," Greil Marcus is quoted in the book, "drive on soft shoulders until they hit the few thousand who'd thought of the same thing, then stopping again.… It was a cosmic traffic jam, where all the cars fall into place like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle and stay there forever.… It was an amazing sight, the highway to some White Lake: it looked, as someone said, like Napoleon's army retreating from Moscow."