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1. Letters to the Editor: (Category); Immediate local reaction after the Woodstock Festival was swift. Within a week, the local weekly newspaers were filled with correspondences concerning the event. Though opinions varied, the majority of ...; Created on 30 November -0001
2. County History: (Category); ... They held great council fires in the Mamakating valley and annual corn harvest festivals along the Delaware River at what is today Cochecton. With the arrival of the Europeans—Swedish, Dutch and then ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Songs and Stories of the Sixties: (Museum News); ... will perform songs from the sixties and the famous Woodstock concert. Guest speakers will, talk about their experience of the changing culture, the Woodstock Festival and the music. Little Sparrow will ...; Created on 07 February 2018
4. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... til mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. It also inspired a slew of local and state laws to ensure that nothing ...; Created on 04 January 2016
5. Woodstock: (Now Showing); The words of Max Yasgur, on whose farm the Woodstock Festival took place during three steamy August days during the summer of 1969, delighted the hundreds of thousands of young people who had gathered ...; Created on 12 April 2013
6. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... xpanded summer population saw the first-time offering of credit-free courses during the summer months. Combining the talents and resources of community organizations the college sponsored the first Sullivan F ...; Created on 04 April 2012
7. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... festivals. ...; Created on 11 August 2007
8. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... of the 1969 Woodstock Festival also received worldwide distribution. For thirty years Paul served as the official photographer for the New York State Police and his photographs of accidents and fires were ...; Created on 11 August 2007
9. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... them for the winter. It was on that farm that the Woodstock festival was held. By 1969 Yasgur farms housed over 550 head of cattle. The Woodstock festival was created and organized ...; Created on 01 June 2004