Posted on 03/21/2023 9:07:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Bobbi Kelly Ercoline, who, along with her boyfriend (and later husband) Nick became an iconic, if unwitting, symbol of the Woodstock generation when their bedraggled, blanketed and poignant image was featured on the music festival’s 1970 soundtrack album, died Saturday following a lengthy illness.
Her death was announced by husband of 54 years, Nick Ercoline. Neither a specific cause of death or age were disclosed, but Ercoline wrote that his wife was surrounded by family when she passed.
“She lived her life well, and left this world in a much better place,” Nick Ercoline wrote. “If you knew her, you loved her. She lived by her saying, ‘Be kind.'” He added, “She didn’t deserve this past years nightmare, but she isn’t suffering from the physical pain anymore and that brings some comfort to us.”
Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly were both 20 years old and had been dating less than two months when they decided on a whim to drive the 40 miles from their New York State hometown to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair happening on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York.
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At one point during the mud- and rain-soaked festival, photographer Burk Uzzle of the Magnum photo agency snapped a picture of a young couple embracing on a hill amidst concert-goers and sleeping bags. The couple was draped in a tattered-looking blanket, the man’s face turned away, the young woman, in sunglasses, seeming to stare directly at the camera.
It wasn’t until the following year with the release of the soundtrack album featuring the photograph on its soon-to-be famous cover that Ercoline and Kelly even realized their photo had been taken.
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So true
Yes, but many of them remain “stuck on stupid” like an old hometown acquaintance of mine who used to rave about “The Man”. He still rants on, not realizing that he and his ilk are “The Man” now. It’s pathetic for a well to do retiree in his 70’s to be so obsessed by faculty lounge Marxism.
Coming into ‘hippie season’ in East Tennessee now...
I guess I’m the one here who came closest to being at Woodstock since I was in a car heading there at one point.
He may have served in the military (I guess that, technically, one can be said to be doing that even while serving time in the stockade), but you have only his word that he ever saw Vietnam.
If he was as much a scum-bag as you say, I would take everything that he may have said cum grano salis.
Regards,
This is so much more important than B*den being owned by Red China. I can see why yahoo would draw attention to this.
“”Well then so be it, I live by certain principles and would accept the consequences before being forced to violate them.””
What are the principles that would cause you a problem in the old military?
I did not know that. But it doesn't change my thesis. As mentioned, it was the start of a long societal and political change, for which we are seeing the fruits now.
How many Americans now would sign up for a hot war in Ukraine, given that conscription would have to start pretty much immediately?
His dad wasn’t in the stockade, he was wounded with the 101st.
We had trouble getting recruits after 9/11.
We aren’t a manly country anymore.
You know now you guys have me wondering about the timeline myself. I said I was the first born but actually my mother had a baby a year before me that died in child birth. At that time she was living in Fort Campbell Kentucky to be with him during training and blamed the inferior medical care she received down there for the baby’s death saying if she was treated in a competent hospital the baby would have survived. That happened in 1955. I was born a year later with my 2 sister born a year and 2 years after that and I don’t really remember him being in the army at that time. I’m wondering if he did a short stint then reenlisted later on. What seems odd is he entered as an enlisted man (with no college degree at the time) yet emerged as a Lieutenant. He used to get a kick out of the fact that when he went to the commissary in San Antonio the guard would solute him. He was also a 33rd degree mason which makes me wonder how he achieved that being such a drunkard.
that's part of it. I also think people now feel a big disconnect between themselves and government/elites.
Becoming an officer without a degree is not unusual, I was asked to go to OCS without a degree. I had no intention of accepting but I did go through the initial tests and such just to see the results but when the time came to go before the board before the OCS school I said no, so your dad is fine on that, reenlistment is normal also, especially if it came when things were heating up and he was an action-oriented man.
When was your dad born, and what years do you remember him being in the army?
It is mostly the lack of manliness, young warrior-type males know the military is the place to be for adventure and that is their top thought when they are 18 and 19, not which president is in office.
“”What seems odd is he entered as an enlisted man (with no college degree at the time) yet emerged as a Lieutenant. He used to get a kick out of the fact that when he went to the commissary in San Antonio the guard would solute him. He was also a 33rd degree mason which makes me wonder how he achieved that being such a drunkard.”” and came back with a bunch of shrapnel embedded in his spine that plague him with back pain for most of his life””
I think a lot of us guys here are thinking there was a whole lot more to your father than you knew, and at your advanced age, you should have been rethinking your bitterness against him long ago and tried to learn about him as a man, perhaps a hell of a man.
I don’t remember much about him I said I was 4 when he left but come to think of it I was probably closer to 6. He immigrated here with his family from Scotland as a teenager. But he was extremely patriotic towards the US and considered himself obligated to serve the country that allowed him to enter and become a citizen. I remember visiting him years later as an adult and he had a huge poster of Ronald Reagan on his living room wall lol. He’s been dead for a number of years but I bet he would have fit in here on Free Republic if he were still alive probably better than I do lol.
The more you can put together on him and his timeline the more we can help you make sense of it.
That goes for the future as well, if you later get some details in order then you can post a thread on it and ask the older guys and vets to help pull the pieces together.
Yeah I’m kind of curious myself as to his timeline in the army. I kind of suspect maybe be did serve a stint during the mid 1950’s then reenlisted later on I just don’t recall much from those early years.
FR is a good source for help on that kind of thing, just put together as many little details and strong speculations as you can and we will help.
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