Max Yasgur

This article, published one week before the masses converged on Bethel quotes the director of the Catskills Resort Association saying - "Mr. Yasgur in Bethel should be applauded for his courage and his foresight... We ought not to be afraid to try a festival."



Special newspaper insert which shows a list of performers on the left and this all cap tribute on the right to festival patron saint and guardian angel Max & Miriam Yasgur.


YASGUR FARMS - ORIGINAL SITE OF THE 1969 - WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL - BETHEL, NEW YORK - MAX & MIRIAM YASGUR, YASGUR FARMS & DAIRY, BETHEL, NY - AUGUST 15th, 16th & 17th, 1969


Here is an original Rolling Stone Issue 130. March 15, 1973. It is in VG condition, slightly worn, fully intact and readable. The first front page banner headline is - Death Takes the Father of Woodstock - which, on page 10 under the title - Max Yasgur, Woodstock Patron - date line Monticello NY, reads - "Max Yasgur died of a heart ailment, on Thursday February 8th at a hospital in Key Marathon, Fla. where he maintained a winter residence. He was 53." So four years prior, when he took the stage at the Woodstock Festival he was only 49 years old.


This article, published the week after the festival announced the availability of bumper stickers "...in psychedelic colors proclaiming - Max Yasgur for President... advertised in a recent issue of the New York Times [by] the Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Company."


Here's a page from the Sunday News, August 24, 1969 showing Max Yasgur in front of his retail dairy barn. He said "Last weekend showed that two generations can coexist." His neighbor stated "They made a cesspool of our property. We don't have any fence left on the place, they used them for firewood. My pond is a swamp and they used my field as a latrine."