Music and culture fans have been pilgrimaging to the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair since the death of the event’s co-creator Michael Lang.

Lang died Saturday after a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

He was 77.

Several locals and tourists visited the Woodstock monument at the corner of West Shore and Hurd roads Monday morning to take photos and chat with other admirers about Lang's tremendous legacy.

“I came out for reflection,” said Mark McCarrell, who worked as a photographer during the Woodstock 25th anniversary event in Saugerties. “With the sun shining, it feels like a blessing moment.”

“It’s intense,” Jim Kinder said, brushing snow and ice off the monument, on what used to be part of the legendary farm that once belonged to Max Yasgur.

Kinder, now an attorney in Boston, also worked for the Saugerties event while living in a tent near the Howard Johnson’s hotel, but had never been to the Bethel site before Monday.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “You hear about it. You read about it. To come visit it — it’s a piece of history.”

The legend of Woodstock and its organizers grew through documentaries, published first-hand accounts and movies. More recently, the 2009 film ‘Taking Woodstock’ further immortalized the concert organizers, including Lang.

“He really was about the peace, love and music part of it,” said Jeryl Abramson said. Abramson, who turned 15 just before Woodstock 1969 and now owns Yasgur Farm.

She said she hopes people in the community honor Lang by being more kind and thinking big.

“It’s a lot to think about,” she said Monday during an interview at her home on the farm. “It’s about the legacy of this man. How do we continue to live up to it?” Because of him, if you put ‘stock’ at the end of anything, that means it’s something. It’s an event.”

Though in his later years he could never outdo his feat as a 24-year-old creating three days of peace, love and music in 1969, he still inspired.

Lang also helped shaped entire communities and the lives of people in Sullivan County.

“All I can say is, ‘Thank you so much, Michael,’” Abramson said. “I’ve created a career off of his legacy. I hope to honor him.”