http://www.prefixmag.com/news/couple-in-all-the-woodstock-photos-still-together/30366/
July 8, 2009
by Kali Holloway
There are plenty of stories from Woodstock about brief, fleeting, um,
acts of love, but far fewer about couples who made it through that
weekend of free love and debauchery unscathed. But the New York Daily
News has discovered a couple from the event -- the most famous
couple, in fact -- still living together in married bliss, just miles
from where the famous 1969 concert took place. Nick and Bobbi
Ercoline, whose picture became a stock image from the event, and even
graced the Woodstock album and poster, married two summers after the
music festival and remain so, four decades later. The two were
unaware of being photographed at the time and didn't discover the
image until years later, as they listened to the Woodstock album at a
friend's house:
"We weren't striking a pose. We were as surprised as everybody to see
that photo on the album cover," said Nick to the News. The
realization came slowly, and only after he recognized the orange
butterfly in the photo. "It belonged to this guy Herbie. We latched
on to him that day because he was having a very bad experience. He
was tripping pretty heavily and he had lost his friends. After I saw
that staff I said, 'Hey that's our blanket.' Then I said, 'Hey, that's us.'"
There's a renewed interest in the pic and all things Woodstock
because of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the music festival.
Michael Lang, one of the original organizers, has suggested Brooklyn,
New York's Prospect Park as a possible site, but there's been no
confirmation as of yet.
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