University of Nebraska- Lincoln Extension. Did you realize that evergreen needles change color in the fall too, just like deciduous trees do? It's true and it often causes alarm in homeowners when their evergreen trees start to drop needles. Although most conifer trees are considered to be evergreen, their needles don't live forever.
Over 100 years later, Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in North America and is lauded for presenting world-class music. The festival attracts about 600,000 listeners to some 120 to 150 events that span all genres from classical music to jazz to music theater over each three-month summer season.
Officially billed as The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, An Aquarian Exposition, the festival that came to be known, simply, as Woodstock is the stuff of legend. Friday marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place from August 15-18, 1969. Woodstock didn't take place in Woodstock, New York, but in Bethel, about 60 miles away. It was really called Woodstock because (festival co-creator) Mike Lang thought it had the right vibe, Bob Spitz, journalist and author of Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 told CNN.