Fifty years after Woodstock The Woodstock generation While La Nouvelle Ligne, then a cub scout, vividly recalls watching the moon landing live on a huge, grainy, black and white television set, if true be told, it has no recollection whatsoever of the Woodstock festival and probably was not even aware of it taking place at the time. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, to give it its official name as it appeared on the poster, did not even take place in Woodstock at all but in Bethel, NY, some ninety miles away. Nor was it the first large rock festival, that award goes to the Monterey Pop Festival, credited with opening the 1967 Summer of Love. Nevertheless, Woodstock would come to define a generation named after it, that of counter-culture, civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam war. As the saying goes, “Even if you were not at Woodstock, you…