Public angst over the Vietnam War and myriad social issues made the summer of ’69 one for the books. As an escape, waves of fun-loving, disenchanted youth trekked to Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York for an experience called Woodstock.

Musical acts such as Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix played before thousands of adoring fans for three days.
 
Forty years later, a Massachusetts-based publisher has gathered short stories from local writer Peter Faur and 49 others who attended the event for Woodstock Revisited (adamsmedia.com, $12.95). These lawyers, professors and other professionals recall their own Woodstock experiences.
 
“I was the only guy at Woodstock to get stoned by hyperventilating in a pup tent,” writes reporter Jeremiah Horrigan. Contributors John Bianco and Jon Jaboolian write, “Everyone was sharing everything. Even the concession stands – like the ticket-takers – gave up any idea of charging for anything and [were] giving away whatever food they had.”
 
Peter Faur is the book’s only Arizona-based contributor. He reflects on his Woodstock experience as a shaggy haired 19-year-old who escaped from his job at a Mars candy bar factory to hop a plane, train and bus with a buddy for a weekend at Woodstock.
 
“We were there for the music,” he says. “And the music was great.”

Today, Faur is 59, lives in Phoenix and is a public relations consultant with Fortune 500 experience and two master’s degrees. But ask him to travel back to 1969, and he grins like a teenager. Suddenly, that job assembling cardboard boxes at the factory seems as far away now as it did back then.