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Each Wednesday, as part of Legacy Willow Bend's "Getting to Know Your Neighbors and Your Staff" program
series, Bob Weinfeld interviews people. The 93-year-old Weinfeld, who, with wife, Jean, was one of the first
residents at the Plano senior community, interviews sports figures, politicians, authors and everyday people
with interesting stories. Weinfeld is more than a guy with a microphone, though. Since arriving in the Dallas-
Fort Worth area in the mid-1960s he has worked hard on behalf of Jewish and secular organizations. Weinfeld
was involved with Richardson, chapters of the Lions Club, Rotary Club and March of Dimes. And, Bob and
Jean are founders and charter members of Dallas' Temple Shalom; Weinfeld helped launch the synagogue's
brotherhood and founded the renowned Temple Shalom Softball League. He served on the boards of Temple
Shalom, the Aaron Jewish Community Center of Dallas, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, AJC and Anti-
Defamation League, to name a few. His 2008 move to The Legacy didn't slow him. Within months, he'd
helped launch the center's library, followed by a monthly book club. At Christmas, he volunteers for "Santa"
duty for Legacy residents. He's father to Melissa Ackerman and Brenda Bliss, and a proud grandparent of five.
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values. It was about acceptance
and diversity, freedom to express
yourself and be yourself in an
honest way with music as an
integral part.”
Now, Harris will have the
opportunity to enjoy some of
the same music when Texas
celebrates the 50th reunion of the
Texas International Pop Festival,
featuring some of the same music
he heard 50 years ago.
“When I was onstage, I knew
that this was going to be one of the
most momentous and historical
events of the ’60s,” Harris said. “I
will never forget it.”
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Richard Harris joined Swami Satchidananda when he welcomed the Woodstock
audience with peace and prayer. (Harris is fifth from the right in white.)
entire experience, and not just
the music,” Harris said. “That’s
what made it special. It was living
together with people you just met
and forming bonds.”
Harris chronicled his
experience. “[Woodstock] was a
cultural touchstone,” he wrote.
“Half a million young people
were there, they lived in peace
for three days without any visible
form of security. They cooperated
to share food and shelter.”
The baby boomer still
gets emotional when he says,
“Woodstock was the epitome
of the ’60s, and expressed true
By Shari Stern
Nostalgic Texans eager to
dig up their tie-dye T-shirts
and flower crowns can enjoy
some of the original greats at
the Texas International Pop
Festival on Labor Day weekend.
The festival, set for Saturday,
Aug. 31, through Sunday, Sept.
1, at Lake Park Golf Course
in Lewisville, welcomes back
artists like Chicago, ZZ Top,
Grand Funk and Edgar Winter.
The festival may not be
Woodstock, but Dallas resident
Richard Harris believes it will
still bring back the same savor of
the storied festival he relished at
17 years old in 1969.
Harris, a recent graduate of
the High School of Music and
Art in New York, was studying
yoga with famous 1960s guru,
Swami Satchidananda. Swami’s
highly-regarded work for the
Integral Yoga Institute earned
him an invite to the Woodstock
Festival, where he would open
with a blessing of peace to the
400,000-person crowd gathered
in Bethel, New York.
But blocked roads delayed
Swami’s arrival, and some of the
performers were unable to get to
the site.
As time wore on, Harris
remembers that festival
promoters encouraged musicians
to start playing. Richie Havens,
slated as the fifth act, went first.
“After playing everything he
knew, he started improvising
with his now-famous song,
‘Freedom,’” Harris said. “When
he was finished, the Swami had
arrived by helicopter.”
Then, Harris, along with his
25 fellow yogis, went onstage
with the Swami and became a
part of history.
Gazing at the crowd from the
stage was a unique opportunity
for Harris. He chatted with
Havens, while miles of traffic and
pedestrians headed toward the
grounds, where they had, at one
point, stomped over the fence,
tearing it down so there were no
longer tickets necessary to get in.
“It was like two different
events: There was the concert and
there was Woodstock Nation,”
Harris said.
Friends, families and kids
formed ‘tribes’ that set up camp
on the grounds near each other.
“I was able to soak in the
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