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FILE - Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969, as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969, and most of that crowd was composed of teenagers or young adults now in the twilight of their lives. That ticking clock is why the Museum at Bethel Woods, based at the site of the festival, is immersed in a five-year project traveling around the United States recording the oral histories of people were there, preserving the Woodstock memories before they fade away. (AP Photo, File)