Woodstock, forty years on

USAToday.com has an article by John Barry of The Poughkeepsie Journal about Richie Havens, still alive and playing:
Nearly forty years to the day that he christened the crowning achievement of the 60s counterculture, Richie Havens returned to an open field in Sullivan County, New York on Friday to sing about a primal human condition, the pursuit of which binds us all.
"Freedom," Havens bellowed from the top of the hill upon which hundreds of thousands descended in August of 1969, for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. "Freedom," he repeated.
At about noon, Havens reprised the song he famously performed as the opening act at Woodstock, on 15 August 1969. His performance— for the media and invited guests— of the song he improvised at one of the world's most famous festivals took place at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, which now sits on the site, and kicked off a weekend of fortieth anniversary festivities.