Close to a half million people attended the three-day “aquarian exposition” in August 1969 that is held up as the peak of the anti-war activist movement of the 1960s. Many of them re-settled in the Inland Northwest, and have their own stories to share about what the festival meant to them, as members of a generation caught in their youth at a juncture in American history.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/10/woodstock-at-50-local-festival-attendees-remember-/