Recreating your very own Woodstock circa 2019

Half a century ago today, the fields of Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel were flooded with people — hippies, peaceniks, flower children and fellow travelers who left their cars, walked for miles and set up their tents for a festival billed as "An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, NY: 3 Days of Peace & Music."

Woodstock. The cultural event that embodied the sixties.

Unfortunately, most of us didn't attend because:

A) We weren't alive;

B) We were alive but still on our first set of teeth; or

C) We were old enough, but our parents were anti-hippie and wouldn't lend us the car, and anyway, we didn't have the dough for tickets. Plus, we were too busy ironing our bellbottoms.

Some of us might have compensated for this appalling lack by attending one of the subsequent Woodstock anniversary festivals. Others might have hoped to attend this year's much-ballyhooed, problem-plagued Woodstock 50 Festival That Wasn't, and, well, bummer. All of us can still find ways to celebrate — to mark this hefty milestone in ways both small and small.

If we make an effort, we can relive Woodstock in real time — putting ourselves alongside the blissed-out multitudes 50 of years ago.

Here's how:

BE WHERE THEY WERE.

Literally. Located at the site of the 1969 festival, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts includes both an amphitheater that seats 1,500 and a museum crammed with posters, photos, buttons, clothing, a flower-power painted school bus and other artifacts.

The museum, alas, is closed this weekend to everyone but ticketholders for one of its events: a sold-out Friday screening of "Woodstock," the 1970 documentary; a 7 p.m. Friday performance by Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band; a 7 p.m. Saturday concert by Woodstock vets Santana alongside the Doobie Brothers; and a 7 p.m. Sunday...