The official Woodstock Music and Art Fair program reads, What we re doing here is celebrating, and at the same time we re checking each other out, and what we see is a bunch of fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. And hooray for us; we ve been fearful angels too long. (Curry, 3) Financially it was a disaster, in the end the festival cost 2.4 million dollars. Culturally is was a success, a historical event that will live on forever. The crowd was 450,000 more than originally expected. Even though they were packed in there like dogs, there was no riots, fights, or rapes. That is why Woodstock Music and Art Fair is history. It defined the times. For four days, the site became a countercultural mini-nation in which minds were open, drugs were all but legal and love was free . (http://www.goecities.com/ music-festival/how-w.htm)