Blog Assignment #3: American Icons- Resources

Woodstock Festival
1. Retrospective video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4QF45Vygw
This video shows pictures that were taken of the concert back in 1969. It lets the viewer see the kind of peace and love mentality that the organizers were fostering.

2. Recent news article
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6085488/woodstock_in_1969
Although this article is not from 1969, it was written by somebody who interviewed some of the artists that played at the concert. In the very first line it says that at the beginning the group was just a bunch of disorganized hippies; but, by the Sunday of that weekend, hundreds of thousands of new relationships were born.

3. Taking Woodstock (book)
http://classicrock.about.com/b/2007/08/16/taking-woodstock-book-review.htm
The book is a firsthand account of Woodstock by Elliot Tiber, the man who made the festival possible. There was a movie made very recently based upon this book.

Hot Dogs
1. Hot Dog Etiquette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69HDek6a3k
Just the fact that there's a video about how to eat a hot dog is enough to prove how iconic they are.

2. History of the hot dog
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HotDog/HDIndex.htm
A website that gives readers insight into the humble beginnings of the delicious, yet mysterious food. It's quite lengthy.

3. Variations AND history of the hot dog
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=406380
This book documents the many different brands of hot dog that have sprung up in the past century, as well as going 20,000 years back in time to chronicle the hot dogs adventure through time.