"If I had to sum up the totality of the Woodstock experience, I would say it was the first attempt to land a man on the earth. It took an awful lot of people to pull it off, but pull it off we did. Welcome to the Aquarian Age." - Abbie Hoffman in " Woodstock Nation," 1969

 Just like viewing the gravestones at Normandy.

 They cut the alfalfa a week early so we could walk through. The stage was over there, and down the road is Fillipini Pond - you know, where they did the skinny-dipping? Please don't mess with the silage corn, OK?

 The field looks exactly like in the movie. Over there, in what's now the horse farm, was where they landed the helicopters. At the corner is where they want to put a marker that says "Site of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival Aug. 15, 16, 17, 1969. "

 Standing on the hill, Art Schubert, who was director of security, describes how you could tell the narcs - three days' growth of beard, and a headband over too-short hair. No one was fooled, and even if they had been, there was an agreement: No busts.

 Abbie Hoffman, who got on the yellow school bus at Grossinger 's Hotel wearing a navy blue polo shirt, (no alligator, thank God), has emerged wearing a multi-colored, tie-dyed T-shirt.

 The better to see you on "Nightline," my dear.

 So I'm telling people about this bizarre weekend celebrating the 15th anniversary of Woodstock at - Can you believe it? Grossinger 's - when a teenage friend wonders "What's Woodstock ? "

 Listen my children, and you shall hear . . . of the Aquarian Exposition, Woodstock , which began 15 years ago today.

 It's famous because - instead of the 60,000 kids who were expected to come for three days of rock music - somewhere around a half million came, not including the hundreds of thousands who started out but never made it because they were caught in a traffic gridlock of monstrous proportions.

 There wasn't nearly enough food, and no place to buy any. There weren't enough toilets. There was no shortage of acid, but some of it was bad.

 Three people did die, but it was not the disaster it should have been,

 because everyone - including the townspeople and the kids - pitched in. Woodstock turned into what it's organizers had billed it: Three days of peace, love, and rock 'n' roll.

 You didn't have to be at Woodstock for it to mean something. The word went forth from Max Yasgur's Farm: "We have seen the future and it works. " Woodstock became the mantra for a new religion of youth, a blueprint for the new order.

 They called themselves the Woodstock Generation. "Never trust anyone over 30," they said. Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman wrote a book about it called '' Woodstock Nation. " Typically, the cover bore the words, "Steal This Book. "

 Hoffman divided Amerika - he spelled it with a "k" - into two parts: Woodstock Nation and Pig Nation. Us and Them.

 It was Pig Nation that was concerned only about making money. The worst crime in Woodstock Nation was to "cop out": Live a safe life with two kids, a dog, and a station wagon, trapped by mortgage payments and things.

 You can see the movie they made about Woodstock if you've got cable. There was even a song:

 Well maybe it's just the time of year,

 Or maybe it's the time of man.