Woodstock museum to open despite withdrawal of funding

The Museum at Bethel Woods, dedicated to the three-day Woodstock Festival that took place in 1969, is set to open next year in spite of the federal government's withdrawal of $1 million of funding for the project. Although New York state Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer sought the federal funding that was voted down last week, the project has received $15 million in state funding.

"Our plans haven't changed," Ellyn Solis, spokeswoman for the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, told the Associated Press. The museum is part of the 2,000 acre performing arts venue and will be located on top of the hill near where the stage that hosted such legendary artists as Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, Janis Joplin and many others was.

Republican Senator John McCain mocked Clinton's spending proposal in TV ads that juxtapose the hippie fest with his Vietnam POW days.
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