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	Max Yasgur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 8, 1973) was the owner of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York on which the Woodstock Festival was held in August 1969.
		The damage to Yasgur's own property was much more extensive, and over a year later he received a $50,000 settlement to pay for the near-destruction of his dairy farm.
		In 1971, two years after the Festival, Max Yasgur sold the farm and eighteen months later died of a heart attack at the age of 53.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Yasgur (279 words)

	Woodstock Land for Sale, but Yasgur's Legacy Lives
		Most of the land that once belonged to the late Max Yasgur has been sold, yet the "festival field" was one of the last to go because Max and his wife Mimi were sentimentally attached to the property.
		Yasgur asked each official if there were any legal stipulations within their respective departments that hadn't been met to accommodate the expected 40,000 people per day.
		Yasgur is going through her husband's papers and stacks of correspondence from thoughout the world.
	www.yasgurroad.com /landsale.html (1350 words)

	Sam Yasgur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sam Yasgur is the son of Max Yasgur.
		He is the man who persuaded his father to let the Woodstock Festival be held on his family's farm.
		Sam Yasgur became an attorney and has served as an Assistant District Attorney for New York City, the Westchester County Attorney, and the Sullivan County Attorney in the State of New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Yasgur (117 words)

	NewStandard: 9/8/96
		Yasgur's name are quite literally milking it, putting it on ice cream and dairy products that are slowly making their way around the country.
		While Yasgur Farms is trying to build a strong base in its home state, it is also targeting other areas likely to contain grown-up hippies.
		"Really, Max Yasgur's name was poison in Sullivan County for a while after the festival because of all the noise and other problems that came along with it," Mr.
	www.s-t.com /daily/09-96/09-08-96/f01bu322.htm (717 words)

	Woodstock: Aftermath
		Max Yasgur toured Israel about two years after the concert and had the opportunity to meet Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
		"Max said to Ben-Gurion, ‘I'm Max Yasgur of Bethel,' and Ben-Gurion shakes his hand and says, ‘Oh yeah, that's where Woodstock was, wasn't it?" said Liberty's Lou Newman, a friend of Yasgur's until the dairy farmer's death of a heart attach in 1973.
		Yasgur's farm was subdivided and sold by his widow, Miriam.
	www.fortunecity.com /campus/barry/1035/woodstockaftermath.htm (1720 words)

	Hexapedia - Woodstock Festival (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, and 17 August, 1969.
		The festival bears the name "Woodstock" because it was originally scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County; local opposition arose, however, and the event was almost cancelled altogether.
		But Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the concert to be held on the family's property, located in Sullivan County, which lies to the south and west of Ulster County.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Woodstock_festival (509 words)

	1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert - How Woodstock Happened - Pt.2
		Max and I were walking on the rise above the bowl.
		Yasgur was known across Sullivan County as a strong-willed man of his word.
		By the time the pipe-smoking Yasgur was approached by Woodstock Ventures, he was the biggest milk producer in Sullivan County, and the Yasgur farm had delivery routes, a massive refrigeration complex and a pasteurization plant.
	www.discoverynet.com /~barnes/wsrprnt2.htm (2350 words)

	Woodstock Delirium \| A New Book and Film by Elliot Tiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Medicis of the famed Borcht Belt, 2 Grossingers, one screeching 5 year old lice infested child from the forest, and one Max Yasgur, the local dairy farmer.
		Max donated awesome cottage cheese and ice cream to the troup of 45 starving actors at Tiber's Summer Barn Theater.
		With a lot of cash in plain wrappers at midnight on the lake, he convinced the local government officials to allow the festival to be born.
	www.woodstockdelirium.com (484 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives
		For three famous days in August 1969, Max Yasgur's bowl-shaped alfalfa field in the otherwise sleepy small town of Bethel, N.Y., teemed with half a million young people.
		Alan Gerry, a local septuagenarian billionaire who bought Yasgur's alfalfa patch for $1 million in 1997 and later purchased the surrounding 1,400 acres, hopes to bring the people and the music back to Bethel, N.Y., but in a decidedly 21st-century way.
		When the plan was first unveiled in 2001, it called for the construction of a pavilion on property adjacent to Yasgur's old field known as the Gabriel farm.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arch_story/012403p.htm (1024 words)

	WPA Press/Media Contact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Woodstock entrepreneurs Michael Land and John Roberts were driven out of Wallkill, N.Y. (40 miles further down Route 17), the maverick dairy farmer rented his land to them for $50,000, despite personal threats against his life and a threatened boycott of his milk.
		Two years ago, during a late-night interview with The New York Times, Yasgur said: “I told Lang and Roberts, ‘If you fellows can get complete approval from all safety authorities, you can rent my property.’” Some of the Sullivan County elders were outraged at Yasgur’s proposal.
		Yasgur is going through her husband’s papers and stacks of correspondence from throughout the world.
	www.woodstockpreservation.org:81 /landforsale.html (1327 words)

	Long-haired folks flock back to Yasgur's farm
		Some 40 Porta Potties stand tall on the dusty road to Max Yasgur's farm.
		They pay no mind to the Town of Bethel's injunction against a bash at the farm of the farmer who owned the famous field, Max Yasgur.
		A day before the three day anniversary weekend, folks were getting Yasgur's farm ready to party back to the garden.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2002/08/15/sibash.htm (402 words)

	Max Yasgur - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Max Yasgur (December 15, 1919 - February 8, 1973) was the owner of farm on which the Woodstock Festival was held in 1969.
		During the event he briefly addressed the crowd.
		Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" includes a reference to "Yasgur's Farm".
	www.wordsonline.org /Max_Yasgur (78 words)

	Max Yasgur's Farm
		And then it all seemed to get into gear—miraculously, given the circumstances of the venture.
		"I think you people have proven something to the world," Max Yasgur told the crowd, "that half a million people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music..."
		Max Yasgur once had a beautiful hillside of blowing grass.
	www.univie.ac.at /Anglistik/easyrider/data/pages/woodstock/yasgur.htm (208 words)

	1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Here are photos of Max Yasgur's house and barn.
		Truly the "Angel of Woodstock", if not for Max Yasgur, there would have been NO Woodstock to celebrate today.
		Against neighbor's protest and threats, he allowed his dairy farm to be used as the scene of the greatest rock festival ever.
	www.woodstock69.com /yasgur.htm (78 words)

	Yasgur Farms Home of the Woodstock Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1939, Lew Wohl established Star Dairy in Woodridge, New York.
		Yasgur Farms is a full service dairy that produces milk, milk products, ice cream, and bottled water.
		In 1985 Andrew Wohl became the President of Yasgur Farms and grew the business to 100 employees.
	www.yasgurfarms.com /yasgurfarm.htm (45 words)

	Max Yasgur's Farm - 1969 Woodstock Festival Site
		The festival was just an extraordinary event that widened his experience in life because of his contact with these people." -Mrs.
		(originally published in The New Times Watkins Glen Edition, 1973) by Jeff Blumenfeld: Max's story, written a few months after his passing.
		(originally published in The Times Herald-Record, 1997) by Marie Szaniszlo: an article about the spontaneous gathering at Yasgur's Farm in August 1997.
	www.yasgurroad.com /history.html (308 words)

	Woodstock - CounterCulture - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, USA until August 17.
		The festival bears the name 'Woodstock' because it was originally scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County, but the town offered no appropriate site to host such a large event.
		But Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the concert to be held on the family's alfalfa field, located in Sullivan County, which lies about 40 miles southwest of Woodstock itself.
	counterculture.wikia.com /wiki/Woodstock (294 words)

	Andy Dantzler's Photographic Memorial to the Woodstock Generation ~ Articles
		The spirit is also tired and wants a final resting place, and one should maybe consider that the spirit is throughout the Town of Bethel, and not just on one filed in particular.
		We forget a farmer by the name of Max Yasgur who let it happen, and forget the people who unselfishly came to the aid of those in need that year.
		[Since I was asked: "The Queen" refers to June Gelish, disputed legal owner of the land where Max Yasgur allowed the original "Woodstock Festival" to be held.
	members.aol.com /agovan3/articles.html (864 words)

	Listen to the Revolution
		Residents of Bethel sat on street corners and watched swarms of cars pass through their tiny town, comparing the experience to an army invasion during wartime.
		Young people from all over were converging on Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York to celebrate '3 Days of Peace and Music' at the Woodstock Music Festival.
		By the second day of the festival, Max Yasgur's farm was designated a disaster area and emergency supplies had to be flown in.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester2/040701/040701stephenwood.html (715 words)

	village voice > news > Back To Which Garden? by Margit Detweiler
		Back in Bethel, the Friends of Yasgur's Farm meet in an old calving barncummusic hall, bright with stained-glass portraits of ancient Woodstock stock like Richie Havens and Roger Daltry.
		Like Max Yasgur himself, who rescued Woodstock '69 when no one else in Sullivan County wanted dirty hippies on their property, Howard is just the facilitator for this hoedown.
		Without a permit from town hall, Howard and Abramson— the latter running for town supervisor— are casting their August event in Bethel as a political rally for the "Wanna Party"; they're expecting their biggest turnout ever, with über-hippies from the annual North American Rainbow Gathering in nearby Alleghany National Forest trickling in as well.
	www.villagevoice.com /features/9928/detweiler.shtml (1958 words)

	WebStock: The New Journalism
		woodstock.43.7: Max Yasgur's Ghost (axon) Fri 12 Aug 94 19:08 thought occurs to me that what the web medium needs is full motion vid and sound.
		woodstock.43.34: Max Yasgur's Ghost (axon) Mon 15 Aug 94 13:11 well, as an experiment in collaborative journalism, i'd have to say this is a partial failure.
		The feeling was a lot like reading the WELL during the Oakland Hills Fire or the earthquakes, except instead of covering a disaster it was covering a mostly-fun concert.
	www.well.com /woodstock/wstockconf/woodstock.43.html (1663 words)

	Yasgur Road Productions
		To the friends and family of Yasgur Road:
		Roy and Jeryl can only apologize to you for the rudeness of the Town of Bethel.
		All content © 1996- 2003 Yasgur Road Productions.
	www.yasgurroad.com (210 words)

	Woodstock 1969, Infamous Max Yasgur's Hippie Music Festival
		Around July 20, 1969 the promoters announced that the concert would not be held at the original site, the 300-acre Industrial Park in the town of Wallkill, New York.
		The new site for this now controversial Rock Concert would be a dairy farm (Max Yasgur's) in the small town of Bethel, New York.
		It has been said it was that very move that created the publicity to cause some 450,000 so called Hippie's to hit the road to the now infamous Max's Hippie Music Festival (WOODSTOCK).
	www.geocities.com /hip_haven/woodstock.htm (351 words)

	ePier - WOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL 1969 UNUSED CONCERT TICKET
		The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock festival held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15-18, 1969.
		When local opposition arose, the event was almost cancelled, but Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the concert to be held on the family's alfalfa field, located in Sullivan County, about 40 miles southwest of Woodstock.
		Although the show had been planned for a maximum of 200,000 attendees, over 500,000 eventually attended, most of whom did not pay admission.
	www.epier.com /biddingform.asp?1422261 (856 words)

	Woodstock
		Does the name Max Yasgur ring a bell?
		The 3 day event that took place in 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York - about fifty miles from the town of Woodstock.
		Bob Dylan was currently residing in Woodstock, New York at the time, and promoters had first chosen that location for the festival.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_legends/21410 (519 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Grateful Dead Live at Max Yasgur's Farm on 1969-08-16
		Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Max Yasgur's Farm on 1969-08-16 (August 16, 1969)
		I wish I could have been in the Bay Area in the 60's or at Yasgur's Farm.
		It seems possible that power was cutting out at times causing this problem.
	www.archive.org /details/gd69-08-16.sbd.cotsman.15205.sbeok.shnf (1544 words)

	[No title]
		My latest manuscript, Max Yasgur's Farm, takes you along on a journey from Indianapolis to the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the Woodstock Festival in Bethel New York.
		Neil and Shauna find love and the answers they have been searching for on this long and winding road.
		If you would like to learn more about myself, this manuscript, Woodstock or writing in general click on one of the links below.
	www.angelfire.com /in/dpbimrose/index.html (357 words)

	Woodstock photos:woodstock 69 photos:Woodstock Festival photos:Elliott Landy's classic photos of Woodstock 69 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		393.Max Yasgur, owner of the farm, Woodstock Fest.
		394.Max Yasgur, owner of the farm, Woodstock Fest.
		395.Max Yasgur, Martin Scorcese (below) returning Max’s Peace sign.
	www.woodstockphotos.com /Woodstock_photos/woodstock_photos.htm (119 words)

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