Laguna Woods resident Nadine Asner was in high school in August 1969, living with her parents in Brooklyn, New York, when she attended an event that would have a profound impact on her life, even her character.

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was taking place for three days in upstate New York. The festival, coming as America was deeply rooted in the Vietnam War, became a pivotal event for the 1960s counterculture with its focus on peace, love and music.

Asner liked the music of the era – Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Country Joe McDonald and the Fish, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, all bands that performed at Woodstock.

But she was far from being a hippie like many of the 400,000 who attended the festival.

“I was probably the antithesis of a hippie,” Asner said.

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