Jacquie > wrote:

: "Evelyn" > wrote in message
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: >
: >
: > "Susan" > wrote in message
: > ...
: >> Evelyn wrote:
: >>>
: >>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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: >>>> Do you live in the mountains or something?
: >>>
: >>>
: >>> Yes. I don't know if you have ever heard of the Catskill mountains in
: >>> NY state. I am in Woodstock. That is THE Woodstock of the rock
: >>> festival fame. But it is a beautiful place, and the three months of
: >>> winter are worth the beauty of the rest of the year....... I think.
: >>>
: >>
: >>
: >> It is the Woodstock NEAR Bethel, where the concert actually was, though,
: >> right?
: >>
: >> Lots of hippie regalia and paraphernalia for sale in Woodstock. :-)
: >>
: >> Susan
: >
: >
: > No, it is the actual town of Woodstock where the promoters of the Bethel
: > festival (in Sullivan County) came from. They originally planned to have
: > it here, but the Bethel location was able to accommodate more people.
: > They did have a second Woodstock festival that was actually held around
: > here a few years ago. This is a hippie town, but interestingly enough
: > it consists of several "cultures" in one. There are the old timers,
: > farmers and country folks who originally settled here and lived here from
: > way back, then the hippie and art people who gave the village its fame,
: > and then there are the buddhist monasteries, Zen and Tibetan. So there
: > are the "regular" folks, and the artistic types from NYC who come here to
: > vacation, and the spiritual people. I have links to all three. My
: > fathers grandmother was actually from here, I am an artist, and thirdly a
: > buddhist. So although I am not nor was I ever a hippie, I have good
: > reasons to be here and feel I have found my home! We really love it
: > here. But the ice and snow are a bit over the top this year. Usually
: > we might get this much over the course of an entire winter, as we have
: > gotten in one month.
: > --
: > --
: > Best Regards,
: > Evelyn
: >
: > Rest in a sky-like mind.
: > Sit like a mountain floating on the earth.
: > Breathe like the wind circling the world
: >

: That's how Sedona is. The Hippies moved into that area because of the
: mystical part of it( the Vortex)... Now it is old hippies and artists that
: live there...it still seems mystical Peyote was the drug of choice in the
: 70's there...among others The art is very expensive too. Hippies artists
: have become very monetary I have a friend that went off to San Francisco
: with her High School boyfriend...they came back a few years later , married
: after a couple of years in Tucson, they decided to move to the Sedona
: area...actually in the Oak Creek/Cottonwood Area. They found some land and
: built on it. 35+ years later they have a beautiful hand built home...they
: found their paradise. We went to Sedona for the first time a year ago...it
: is Mystical We have a few Art/hippie areas around here. Bisbee, a small
: mining town is full of art...we also have a small community that is nothing
: but artists..Tubac. There is an area around The U of A where the hippies
: settles...you can find allot of unique art in that area. I had a friend that
: was at the first Woodstock..she said it was Mad..she enjoyed every bit of
: it...well what she can remember of it...LOL.

Woodstock has had artists there at least since the 20'3 and 30's, if not
before along with those local folks. In margaretville, about 45 mins
further NW up route 28, we had some of the anti-rent peole living as
renters on the Patroon' like Livingston' s monstrous estates. Lots of
history in those mountains along with old Rip Van Winkle and his famous
bowling. We still hear that bowling in the summer months with the many
local thunderstorms.

Wendy