Photo Bill Eppridge 1969

The beat of a new generation.Photo Bill Eppridge 1969

The beat of a new generation.Photo Bill Eppridge 1969

A man leans on his Stars and Stripes knapsack. Wrote LIFE columnist Barry Farrell of his experience at Woodstock: "I even felt a bewildering surge of patriotism for the country that had created, however accidentally, such a vast, benign generation." (BILL EPPRIDGE) from The Washington Post

A man leans on his Stars and Stripes knapsack. Wrote LIFE columnist Barry Farrell of his experience at Woodstock: “I even felt a bewildering surge of patriotism for the country that had created, however accidentally, such a vast, benign generation.” (BILL EPPRIDGE) from The Washington Post

Photo Bill Eppridge