This upcoming Saturday will mark the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival which became a high point of both the 1960's and the counterculture. It demonstrated that an alternative society was at least possible, and was the test run for other intentional communities that came later. But 1969 was also a very important year in that it marked a very clear dividing line between the American culture before it and the American culture after it. After 1969, there could never be a return to how things were before.