original research or unverified claims what a mess statements like these litter this article the festival was held during a time of military conflict abroad and racial discord at home and participants quickly became aware that the event had taken on a meaning beyond its original intent the site of woodstock became for four days a countercultural mini nation minds were open drugs were used and love was free yet in tune with the idealistic hopes of the s woodstock satisfied most attendees a concert hall has been erected up the hill and the fields of the old yasgur farm are still visited by people of all generations