“By the time we got to WoodstockWe were half a million strongAnd everywhere was a songAnd a celebration.”

— From "Woodstock," written by Joni Mitchell

Just ask Harold “Skip” Arrich about that celebration at Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York.

The retired some of whose memories of the famed Aug. 15-18, 1969 festival are music to the ears of the folks collecting Woodstock oral histories.

Representatives from The Museum at Bethel Woods, who made a recent visit to Florida to interview festivalgoers, have recorded approximately 1,500 such histories over the past five years, said Neal V. Hitch, senior curator.

“ We record video and audio, but what we are archiving is the transcriptions of the interviews,” Hitch said.

“These will become a historical archive of the authentic Woodstock experi

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