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Site Of Woodstock Added To National Registry Of Historic Places

The site of the music festival, now a sprawling compound, is added as the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love looms.
A couple embraces at the Woodstock music festival.

The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of the Woodstock music festival in 1969, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, according to an announcement on its website. The news was first reported by the Associated Press.

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