Then & Now: Barbara Moore

Scarlet Disko: How old were you during Woodstock? Barbara Moore: I was 19.   S: What were you doing at the time? B: I was living at home in Long Island and working at a finance company, doing clerical work, to make some money to go back to school at the community college where I was studying business at.   S: Were your parents aware that you were going to Woodstock? B: My parents didn’t know I was going to the festival. They thought I was just going out with some girlfriends for the weekend to hear some music and would be back Sunday night.   S:Did you go to Woodstock with friends or alone? B: There was four of us. I had never gone camping, growing up on Long Island, and hadn’t really gone anywhere in general since my family didn’t have a lot of money. We decided it’d be a good idea to rent a tent since none of us had one.   S: What did you think you were going to exactly? B: All I was to assume was that there would be some very cool music. But, I had no idea that people were actually going and knew of the festival’s existence.   S: Why did you go? B: As I was working, most of my friends were at college. So, I was around a different crowd of people that I worked with. These friends who wanted me to go to Woodstock with them weren’t the college type. I was told I should go since I like concerts and music. The difficulty was making it work with my schedule as I had recently started working with this company.   S: Did you buy a ticket, or did you get into the festival for free? B: Yeah, we wanted to be sure to get in, so we bought them.   S: What was your most favorite memory of the festival? B: That the tractors didn’t run us over when we were in our tent during the rain. We were lucky to have the tent as I’d never slept in an open field like that before. It was also really shocking because I had never been around that many people. I’d never been around people on drugs before, I had never seen people tripping on acid or smoking pot. It was all a whole new experience. The...