Everyone’s Got a Woodstock Story! This year at ComFest we’re continuing our collaboration with the Museum at Bethel Woods (1969 Woodstock historic site). After a successful program in Columbus this past year where we collected 23 oral history interviews. They included a diverse array of storytellers such as students at The Ohio State University, counterculture boutique and head shop owners, pioneers of fashion, people who moved to Columbus to work at Battelle, people who went on to become notable physicians and scientists and several early ComFest organizers.
We are excited to be working with the Museum once again to help record our community’s memories. The Museum at Bethel Woods comes to us as part of the fourth year of their Oral History Initiative, a project which aims to collect as many stories from Woodstock and other 1960s and ‘70s festival attendees as possible – including ComFest!
Curators from the Museum will be setting up a mobile oral history studio at ComFest to record your stories. All you have to do is be there, and be ready to tell your stories.
A sign-up sheet will be available at the Museum’s tent and in the Shelter House each day of ComFest. To sign up for an interview, email oralhistory@bethelwoodscenter.
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