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> "Evelyn" > wrote in message
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>> "Susan" > wrote in message
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>>> Evelyn wrote:
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>>>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>>>> Do you live in the mountains or something?
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>>>> 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.
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>>> It is the Woodstock NEAR Bethel, where the concert actually was, though,
>>> right?
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>>> Lots of hippie regalia and paraphernalia for sale in Woodstock. :-)
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>>> Susan
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>> 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.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Evelyn
>>
>> Rest in a sky-like mind.
>> Sit like a mountain floating on the earth.
>> Breathe like the wind circling the world
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> 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.


Sounds like a place I'd enjoy!

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Best Regards,
Evelyn

Rest in a sky-like mind.
Sit like a mountain floating on the earth.
Breathe like the wind circling the world